Example sentences of "did [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 31 | It did not seem to have much to do with custard . |
| 32 | ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up . |
| 33 | Tug heard the suspicion in her voice , but it did not seem to worry the girl . |
| 34 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 35 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 36 | Aunt Louise did not seem to understand this . |
| 37 | Every week we went shopping to the town , taking a bus from the bottom of the hill : it did not seem quite safe to leave Aunt Louise and the fire together alone . |
| 38 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 39 | In any case , he did not seem to know . |
| 40 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 41 | At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked . |
| 42 | His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all . |
| 43 | But she did not seem to want to see it . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 45 | It did not seem that I could survive such a volcanic attack from deep within my own system . |
| 46 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 47 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 48 | People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words . |
| 49 | He shrugged , spread his hands in the usual gesture , did not seem to care . |
| 50 | What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya . |
| 51 | They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media . |
| 52 | The shopkeeper who berated the regime for its brylcream policy accepted its definition of him as a capitalist , an entrepreneur : that did not seem justified by any sensible criterion of capitalism . |
| 53 | The distant traffic noises did not seem to interrupt the silence ; the reflective water gave to the Palace of Westminster the illusion of insubstantiality . |
| 54 | Nick Faldo , keeping a keen eye later in the evening back at his hotel on the sporadic and very fleeting general election results , did not seem unduly perturbed by his 71 . |
| 55 | That move apart , Motherwell did not seem interested in the match and it was no surprise when the Dons went further ahead in the 36th minute . |
| 56 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 57 | But , with brilliant timing , Boss Man shuddered and with an almighty roar he was up — and Berzerker was down , felled by a punch that did not seem to make contact . |
| 58 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
| 59 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 60 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |