Example sentences of "seemed to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how it seemed to the mystified outsider . |
| 2 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 3 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 4 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 5 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 6 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 7 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |