Example sentences of "but it seem [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could have walked it in five minutes , then the cab should have done it in less , but it seemed a long five minutes before it stopped again and the cab driver opened the door , saying , ‘ Here we are then , lass . ’ |
| 2 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 3 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 4 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 5 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 6 | There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused . |
| 7 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 8 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 9 | It did n't make us rich , and it was hard work , but it seemed a kind of — good , worthwhile occupation — growing things … ’ |
| 10 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 11 | The house I was after was on the south side , that much I knew , but it seemed a pretty standard sort of street with terraced houses down both sides , distinguished only by the colours of the front doors where the residents had actually bothered to renew the paintwork . |
| 12 | But it seemed a shame not to send them to people who need shoes . |
| 13 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 14 | yes but it seemed a bit far fetched , if they said that |
| 15 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 16 | Well course she can but it seemed a bit strange that he said that this morning . |
| 17 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 18 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 19 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 20 | Riven received many odd looks , and was the subject of much behind-hand whispering , but it seemed the result of awe more than anything else . |
| 21 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | He could n't have been unconscious for long , looking back , but it seemed an eternity at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 24 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 25 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 26 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
| 27 | But it seemed an oddly devious means of introduction . |
| 28 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 29 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 30 | But it seems a shame not to challenge yourself because other people say you 're not as good as you used to be . |