Example sentences of "[vb past] never seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was it she 'd never seemed to bore him ? |
| 2 | She could n't imagine it , Laura had never seemed the sizzling type . |
| 3 | There had never seemed to be a particularly harmonious relationship between Kalchu and the bulls . |
| 4 | Her anxieties , her tension , her thoughts about racing tomorrow had never seemed so distant . |
| 5 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 6 | Everyday preoccupations had never seemed more remote , the present never more real , than now . |
| 7 | She had never seemed young , Helen realised ; not even in the haziest reaches of recollection . |
| 8 | It had never seemed to occur to anyone else that she might still do so , and part of her self-loathing was due to the fact that she did n't know . |
| 9 | Closing her eyes , she tried to regain sleep that had never seemed more elusive . |
| 10 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 11 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 12 | It had never seemed such a lonely , sad place since the day his mother had died . |
| 13 | She had never seemed that keen on the idea , and had set out her conditions in Madrid on membership . |