Example sentences of "he seemed a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 2 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 3 | He seemed a man without either a past or a future . |
| 4 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 5 | ‘ He seemed a bit of a playboy to me , ’ said McPhee . |
| 6 | To the Tsar , and especially to the Tsarina , he seemed a gift from heaven endowed with miraculous power to stem the Tsarevich 's bleeding attacks . |