Example sentences of "[vb past] to i [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It never occurred to me how disproportionate was the punishment to the offence .
2 I could wish , incidentally , that Eliot had retained the original title of Wan na Go Home , Baby ? which always seemed to me exactly right .
3 Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems .
4 What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation .
5 but if the god of heaven is concerned that 's fine , he 's not worrying because he created the whole thing , therefore it seemed to me pretty good reason to be concerned
6 At that time , the idea of schools being ‘ kitemarked ’ like safety belts or electric kettles seemed to me rather bizarre .
7 They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation .
8 I realised that the standard of scholarship of the staff of Judson was not as high as that of the rest of the University , but their care of the students seemed to me more personal .
9 But it always seemed to me more important from L.G. 's point of view than from ours .
10 The whole arrangement seemed to me irresistibly reminiscent of T. E. Lawrence retreating from fame as an army officer to obscurity in the ranks , or of Anthony Asquith , the film director , spending his weekends behind the counter of a transport café in Yorkshire .
11 She seemed to me quite normal the last time we met . ’
12 well I can understand that , yes well I , I , I , just say was n't going to rule on this and I 'm not in , not er convinced at the moment it would be appropriate to rule on it er as part of the er , in any judgment I gave , but it seemed to me quite important on reflection to , to hear the way what you were putting it
13 The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement .
14 This seemed to me so true that I could n't imagine why it was not universally acknowledged .
15 They seemed to me very distant , almost suspicious .
16 They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure .
17 it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness .
18 … she remained to me always unattainable and romantic — unique , with all the unexpressed purposes of love such as no world had ever known .
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