Example sentences of "seemed to [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
| 2 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 3 | ‘ Seemed to me old Throgmorton had a point . |
| 4 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
| 5 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 6 | ‘ A creeping sense of sickness comes over me at the unnecessariness of mediocre painting , ’ he wrote , admitting also that he sat back , whilst others indulged in what seemed to him brittle insanity , ‘ with a sort of smothered grin and tight feeling of suffocation ’ . |
| 7 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 8 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 9 | But this poem seemed to us incontrovertible proof of our poetic twinship . |