Example sentences of "[pers pn] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so lucky that I It seems so . |
| 2 | Michael Swinton is not , of course , one of our most distinguished painters , his style is too obvious , too photographic but I imagine that to you it seemed a wonderful distinction . ’ |
| 3 | From the little I knew of you it seemed out of character . |
| 4 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 5 | No , above you it seems more noisy . |
| 6 | Wycliffe had no maxims , but that was exactly what was being done , though to him it seemed of paramount importance to build a clear picture of the victim himself . |
| 7 | The bare infinitive , in contrast , represents its event as an object of co-operation between the helper and the helpee : even though this close co-operation does not always involve the helper actually doing part of the helpee 's activity for him it seems to imply a view of the helper as instrumental in the realization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 8 | She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him . |
| 9 | When his leg brushed against her it seemed to burn her . |
| 10 | To her it seemed that they were closing in on her , and she looked ahead nervously , seeing that Lucenzo 's rapid stride had taken him out of sight . |
| 11 | The waves around these rocks churn up a salty froth that is said to resemble cotton-wool , though to me it seemed more like the foaming spit of an angry sea-serpent . |
| 12 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |
| 13 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 14 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 15 | It was funny — when my dad had said it to me it seemed like the rather tired , friendly sort of thing that parents often say to you . |
| 16 | To me it seemed |
| 17 | ‘ Well , to me it seemed a child . |
| 18 | It seems ironic that that for me it seemed |
| 19 | It is is n't it ? it seems ironic that for me it seemed such a big thing , in case you still need it clear I was William 's nephew . |
| 20 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 21 | Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes . |
| 22 | To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all . |
| 23 | There is nothing illegal in this method , to my knowledge anyway , but I avoid it because to me it seems like cheating . |
| 24 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 25 | The official integrated magnitude is 8 , but to me it seems slightly brighter than this , and giving definite magnitude values for diffuse objects is always a problem . |
| 26 | To me it seems now as though all had ended well . |
| 27 | ‘ And to me it seems like years , long years ago . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ To me it seems so , ’ he murmured sardonically , his gaze noting the new flush that stained her cheeks . |
| 29 | We live so isolated an existence here that to me it seems quite odd . |
| 30 | To me it seems particularly loathsome and , when you look at the experiences in countries like America where it operates , you 'll see that we want no part of it in this country . |