Example sentences of "but [pers pn] seemed [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 2 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 3 | I 'm rather unprepared for this one admittedly , but it seemed to me that if you 're quoting a member of the absent hierarchy , you might as well hear er from , from a present member . |
| 4 | But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy . |
| 5 | Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , my dear , ’ he said to his sister , but it seemed to me that his voice was not completely friendly . |
| 7 | But it seemed to me you 'd made certain assumptions … ’ |
| 8 | But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting . |
| 9 | Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude . |
| 10 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 11 | well I can understand that , yes well I , I , I , just say was n't going to rule on this and I 'm not in , not er convinced at the moment it would be appropriate to rule on it er as part of the er , in any judgment I gave , but it seemed to me quite important on reflection to , to hear the way what you were putting it |