Example sentences of "[vb past] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to her that what Pascoe had said earlier was n't at all coy ; in fact , the more she thought about it , the more carefully judged it seemed to be . |
| 2 | When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in . |
| 3 | But someone had built on a large extension to the rear and this housed the kitchen , which as Meredith was to discover , was large , modern and furbished it seemed with every kind of modern gadget . |
| 4 | As darkness intensified it seemed to grow . |
| 5 | Indeed , once a psychic has become established it seems that nothing — not the most detailed confession , not the most damning exposure — can dent the confidence of believers-And , not content with continuing to believe the evidently fraudulent , they do their very best to draw the exposers into the net . |
| 6 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |
| 7 | English Heritage does not even want these sites investigated it seems , because they regard excavation as crude and too intrusive . |
| 8 | ‘ I did not see the television , as even my friends who had it had not the Independent ; and the only person who saw it seemed to be the greengrocer , who naturally had everything . |
| 9 | As she listened it seemed to rise in intensity so that she could imagine , with an agreeable frisson of simulated terror , that the low friable cliffs had finally crumbled and that the white foaming turbulence was rolling towards them across Alex 's face . |
| 10 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |
| 11 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 12 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |
| 13 | I thought about it calmly , still standing there as though nothing had passed through my mind but the continual computation guiding the kite , and I thought it seemed reasonable . |
| 14 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 15 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 16 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 17 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 18 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
| 19 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 20 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 21 | The procedures of the system made it seem overwhelmingly complex : the visits , the record cards of teachers and helpers , the correspondence with employers , the labour exchange forms , the committee structure , and their numerous meetings . |
| 22 | He was a thin man with a hooked nose and dark stubble on his chin which made it seem too weighty for his cadaverous face . |
| 23 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 24 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 25 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 26 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 27 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 28 | His disgruntled voice made it seem as though the precautions of the drug smugglers formed a personal affront to his patriotism . |
| 29 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 30 | He made it seem an aeon . |