Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seem [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only by being constantly on the scene , as a neutral , that we seemed to me to move at all . |
| 2 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 3 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 4 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 5 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 6 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 7 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 8 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 9 | Except that it seemed to him rather funny . |
| 10 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 11 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 12 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 13 | It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’ |
| 14 | So that it seem to me that we have to take that into account in terms of how we are approaching our struggle . |
| 15 | That it seems to me is the heart of the matter and he has expressed it more clearly than many Christian theologians . |
| 16 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 17 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 18 | A spirit , that it seems to me , has virtually gone from em , certainly English football nowadays , and I think , in many ways , English sport in general . |
| 19 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 20 | Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere . |
| 21 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 22 | We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people . |
| 23 | Another safeguard that it seems to me that any such policy should have should be that development of the site must be possible without breaching reasonable and appropriate environmental standards . |
| 24 | I mean gender is one issue , but it 's not the only one , and one of the ones that it seems to me that we 've missed out on erm to date , when we 're talking about International Women 's Day , is race . |
| 25 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |