Example sentences of "they did [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not seem to realise how fragile the ceremony was . |
| 2 | They did not seem to realise how important they were ; not self-important , but important to the incantation , the altar , the ritual . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 5 | They did not seem to follow any particular pattern , but occurred at random and with varying intensity . |
| 6 | They did not seem to square with his experience of real people ; there was something inhuman about Godwin 's conclusion that ‘ the virtuous man , in proportion to his improvement , will be under the constant influence of fixed and invariable principles ’ . |
| 7 | Now he did and they did not seem absurd , they seemed like good reasons . |
| 8 | In initial discussion Mr and Mrs Smith expressed their main problem in broad terms as being that they did not seem to get on well : they were always ‘ at each other 's throats ’ . |
| 9 | It was great and they did not seem to cause us many problems . |
| 10 | Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference . |
| 11 | He did not know the people on it and they did not seem as keen to join as he had expected . |
| 12 | Would any man in his senses invent a story of a bus crash in which 16,000 passengers were killed ? it is much more likely that these Old Testament numbers were faithfully copies out , despite the fact that they did not seem to make sense . |
| 13 | They did not seem entirely happy , to Esther , but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy . |
| 14 | They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness . |
| 15 | And they did not seem to feel the same need to compete that men did , the urge to scatter names , achievements , possessions about , like so much status-defining dandruff . |
| 16 | Oddly , they did not seem to bother the horses . |
| 17 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 18 | They did not seem quite the sort of men one imagined Ianthe knowing as friends , though she had certainly greeted them cordially enough . |
| 19 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 20 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 21 | Before going he had told us that firstly , all his carp had been caught on sweetcorn and bread and although fishing with boilies on one rod all week he had been able to get a take , in his words they just did not seem to eat them ; secondly , although there were plenty of carp on the surface they did not seem the least bit interested in floaters , and thirdly he was at a loss to know what one needed to do to put a cat on the bank . |
| 22 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 23 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 24 | They did not seem to realize that the Allies ' prime concern was the neutrality of Spain , and that any interest they might have in the nature of its political regime existed as a function of that concern . |
| 25 | They did not seem to have any idea of what a sandwich course was about ; they seemed to pretend that their students were all mature men with industrial experience . |
| 26 | Although the results were abnormal for 55 ( 48% ) of the ‘ medical ’ patients , they did not seem to influence clinical management . |
| 27 | ‘ They did not seem to be ready for me at all , ’ said Hill . |
| 28 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |
| 29 | They did n't seem to be embarrassed , whereas I used to try and hide everything and felt conscious of myself . ’ |
| 30 | But they did n't seem to last very long . |