Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
2 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
3 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
4 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
5 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
6 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
7 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
8 | The children 's bedroom seemed to me like a microcosm of maturer communities : the same shifting alliances , occasional irritations , necessity for tolerance and need for periods of privacy . |
9 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
10 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
11 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
12 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
13 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
14 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
15 | It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match . |
16 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
17 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
18 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |