Example sentences of "[not/n't] seem the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not seem the type , yet he passed his course at Achnacarry with flying colours . |
| 2 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 3 | Did he wish to forestall any suggestion that a French Catholic might not seem the equal of , let alone superior to , those mighty Lutherans ? |
| 4 | But Lesley-Jane did n't seem the type . |
| 5 | Shame — he did n't seem the type to go star-spotting . |
| 6 | she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school . |
| 7 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 8 | This did n't seem the time to remind him that he had seen her wearing considerably less . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a lot o' difference in their ages , an' Fred do n't seem the sort o' bloke who 'd be a cheerful soul ter be wiv . |
| 10 | ‘ He did n't seem the sort for being free |
| 11 | It did n't seem the moment to remind him that he had . |