Example sentences of "it [adv] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A bit , but it mostly seems to be with rats and hedgehogs and seaweed . ’ |
| 2 | It only seems to be things I know already … . |
| 3 | We used to sell it but now it only seems to be Boots — I know it is still popular . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose Mum should know , as she 's always saying it only seems like yesterday that she was young . |
| 5 | So does it only seem to be |
| 6 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 7 | You 're quite reluctant to think of the bad points because it suddenly seems like the most perfect patch of land on this planet . |
| 8 | Similarly , there is nothing intrinsically right about Farmer and Parker 's typology of children affected ; it merely seems to be a revealing distinction . |
| 9 | I think that , I do n't know , it just seemed as if you were looking at me like |
| 10 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 11 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 12 | Oh no , no , no , not at all af after the war work it , it just seemed to er no one ever seemed to get any be interested in flying as they were pre-war then , or they probably that they had cars and they could get about more you know to other outlying places like Pentiford in Wolverhampton |
| 13 | It just seemed like an interesting challenge . |
| 14 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 15 | ‘ It just seemed like a ridiculous idea but I thought it was a nice place to go and have a look around , ’ he admits . |
| 16 | I never did , but when it came up for auction , it just seemed like it would make her smile , and the money was going to a good cause , too . |
| 17 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 19 | until it just seems as if it 's an impossible task |
| 20 | I mean it just seems to me an area which I think I would like to have a bit more information on . |
| 21 | It just seems to be a conversation we 've had before . |
| 22 | It just seems to me that the film is running backwards . |
| 23 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 24 | It just seems to be a sort of club for the clergy . ’ |
| 25 | Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways . |
| 26 | Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else |
| 27 | We , we need n't do it , it just seems to me that it would be |
| 28 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 29 | ‘ It just seems like a waste . |
| 30 | But then , it just seems like ages since I 've been home . |