Example sentences of "seemed to [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 2 | And there seemed to me a safety , a kind of warmth in such numbers . |
| 3 | There seemed to me no chance of the necessary chain of events being completed . |
| 4 | It seemed to me an absurdity . |
| 5 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 6 | As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness . |
| 7 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 8 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 9 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 10 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 11 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 12 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 13 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |