Example sentences of "[noun sg] never seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 2 | But , although most of the rest of the film , until its chase finale , is played out within one house , where the lodger 's strange behaviour arouses suspicions of his guilt , Hitchcock 's interest in using the details of daily life to build anticipation and stir emotion ensures that the action never seems confined . |
| 3 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
| 4 | The food here is particularly good and reasonably priced — the reps come and eat here — and the bar never seems to close . |
| 5 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 6 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 7 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 8 | Even with the extra switches required to operate the options available on the SL , the ergonomics never seem cluttered or complicated . |
| 9 | The ball never seemed to run quite right — Wallace ( I think ) looked to have through ball on the keeper at one point , but it landed a crucial half yard in the keeper 's favour . |
| 10 | However , the provision of one particular facility never seems to fail to divide the village along local and newcomer lines : street-lighting . |
| 11 | Strange to say in all Communist countries , tower-blocks were always being put up but their development never seemed to diminish the housing shortage . |
| 12 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 13 | Her father never seemed to change , she thought , noting the still-upright stance and piercing blue eyes . |
| 14 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 15 | The trouble was that the paper never seemed to get off the ground , which was typical of the Big Flame and ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ approach . |
| 16 | Portillo is one of those infuriating types to whom mud never seems to stick . |
| 17 | The sky never seemed to wake up and about the middle of the day it darkened . |
| 18 | Few men go to birth control clinics , although the Brook Advisory Clinics have reported a slight increase , and contraception is certainly not a salient feature in men 's magazines , where sex never seems to bring such consequences as birth and fatherhood . |
| 19 | But Finn never seemed to care , taking it all casually in his stride . |
| 20 | Man-management never seems to improve that much . |
| 21 | Life never seemed to change . |
| 22 | Life never seems to be like that to me . |
| 23 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , much as we should like to leave this out , the taxman never seems to retire ! |
| 25 | The fellow never seemed to age , nothing changed him ; no lines of worry on his cherubic face , while those hard , glassy eyes shimmered with a quiet amusement . |
| 26 | The plummy Home Counties accents were also said to be difficult for Americans to understand ( though this problem never seemed to arise when the same actors — James Mason , Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons — became Hollywood stars ) . |
| 27 | People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life . |
| 28 | The relationship when manufacturing and retailing are in the same company never seems to be a healthy one and I think there are many examples of that . |
| 29 | Why did his hair never seem to change ? |
| 30 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |