Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to me to be one of the most perceptive remarks in the essay , about which some elaboration on his part would be of considerable interest . |
| 2 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 3 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 4 | That seemed to me to be a perfectly proper use of what the company had to offer . |
| 5 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 6 | That seemed to me to be taken for granted and perfectly possible . |
| 7 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 8 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 9 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 10 | That seemed to me to be a fairly convincing argument , and I was too tired to put up much of a fight . |
| 11 | That seemed to me to be a very good read , a serious book . |
| 12 | They all returned from him to you , |
| 13 | All appeared to us to be warm , positive , enthusiastic people — always praising , rarely criticising . |
| 14 | Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ . |