Example sentences of "it seem like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 2 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 3 | It seemed like my last day had come . |
| 4 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 5 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 6 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 8 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 9 | It seemed like only half an hour since his Mum had gone . |
| 10 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 11 | When I was six or seven , it seemed like the boys had more fun ; they could run and roll around and get dirty . |
| 12 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 13 | It seemed like hours . |
| 14 | Sometimes it seemed like most of them were in Glasgow as well . |
| 15 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 16 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 17 | but it seemed like hours . |
| 18 | A bank of sand separated between the sea and an inner expanse of shore , in which the bed of Rossie Burn was pillowed among undulating slopes clad with a profusion of sea-grasses ; at full tide it seemed like a fresh-water lake , at ebb tide but a marshy waste , only the stream meandering along its time-worn groove . |
| 19 | It seemed like something out of a Hans Andersen story . |
| 20 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 21 | It seemed like only yesterday that he had presented himself at Manchester 's Ringway Airport for training with the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 22 | We were in there for eight or nine hours but it seemed like days . |
| 23 | It seemed like a huge sword of Damocles hanging over the sprinters ' heads . |
| 24 | Bri looked puzzled , but it seemed like a summons . |
| 25 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 26 | It seemed like home to Henry Schwartz , though it came as a surprise to find that he was not immediately accepted . |
| 27 | Now it seemed like a relief to be talking , a novelty , a test of wit . |
| 28 | But it seemed like every few months there 'd be another little trip up . |
| 29 | It seemed like when I heard a saxophone player like Sonny Rollins the sound seemed to come from all over the place — it did n't come from this one little spot . |
| 30 | One of his best friends was already playing and the two were big Kiss and Black Sabbath fans , ‘ so it seemed like the natural thing to do . ’ |