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Example sentences of "[adv] it seem to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them .
2	Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life .
3	How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming .
4	When the , the laundry was knocked down it seemed to be the end of an era that er , it did n't seem to be like park much longer .
5	Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ?
6	The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere .
7	His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him .
8	‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
9	Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick .
10	So it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated , and I could hear just what it would be like in my head .
11	We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house .
12	She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance .
13	The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there .
14	The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man .
15	Or so it seemed to Jaq .
16	So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many .
17	It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' .
18	So it seemed to Fleury in his excitement , anyway .
19	So it seemed to be with Fiver now .
20	Out of a clear sky , or so it seemed to them .
21	First it was something good , or so it seemed to me .
22	Or so it seemed to Scott .
23	Or so it seemed to him .
24	Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand .
25	For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many .
26	It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie .
27	The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made .
28	Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories .
29	So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle .
30	So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy .