Example sentences of "[vb base] it sounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect it sounds silly to you . ’ |
| 2 | People who have n't seen me play , but have heard the album , say it sounds a little bit different . |
| 3 | From what you say it sounds as if , from then on , you started to avoid large business meetings deliberately , and to avoid dining in the staff canteen . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mean that like it sounds — she did n't do it to get on , or not like that . ’ |
| 5 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 6 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it sounds crazy , Mark , ’ Muldoon said . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it sounds corny . |
| 9 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 11 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 12 | I know it sounds absurd |
| 13 | I know it sounds as if I 'm being clever , but I felt then we 'd won . |
| 14 | I know it sounds like Hollywood , but I 've never felt so alone . |
| 15 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 16 | I know it sounds a bit potty , but why should n't we do that ? |
| 17 | ‘ I know it sounds ridiculous but Henry — my husband — he did everything . |
| 18 | I know it sounds trite , but you 're so lucky to have your son . |
| 19 | I know it sounds nutty but I 've always been frightened of cranes . |
| 20 | I know it sounds nutty . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I know it sounds awful but I felt she would criticise what I did and how I looked or try to organise me . |
| 22 | I know it sounds like another made-up story — ’ |
| 23 | I know it sounds silly but I think Miss Hatherby is too interested in Constance . |
| 24 | I know it sounds daft , but the message is still , ‘ Use water wisely ’ . ’ |
| 25 | I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it sounds bad , Mickey , but he is my father-in-law … ’ |
| 27 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |
| 28 | I know it sounds stupid , but it , like , made me feel better than if I just smoked a joint with it . |
| 29 | ‘ I know it sounds modest , ’ he concedes , ‘ but what we need is to do one thing well . |
| 30 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |