Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 2 | It seemed for the barest fraction of an instant that a smile might be knocking at the underside of that granite jaw . |
| 3 | Explaining this seemed of no particular concern to those involved with sport : blacks were patently good at some events and not good at others . |
| 4 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 5 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 6 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 7 | Martin sat down ; he had been wanting to get to know Sarah better for some time and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know many people and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 9 | So this seemed like a good compromise . |
| 10 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 11 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 12 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 13 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 14 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 15 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 16 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 17 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 18 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 20 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 21 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 22 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
| 23 | It seemed like a good option — a chance for chaos . |
| 24 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 25 | It seemed like a good argument for eliminating me . |
| 26 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 27 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 28 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed like a good deal so we went down to Rufford to check the company out . |
| 30 | ‘ Toys seemed like a good alternative . ’ |