Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 2 | Though he had found New York impressive , the people did not seem to him very different from those of Tollemarche . |
| 3 | For some reason people did not seem to be able to accept the possibility of two people who were ‘ going steady ’ being in a state of temporary misunderstanding — the common condition of love ; it had to be make or break , ‘ very fond of each other ’ or ‘ broken it off ’ . |
| 4 | People did n't seem to care to talk about it much . |
| 5 | I intended Birdland to be explicit but fun , a fantasy to counteract the Black Kiss style of violent sex comic , but these people do n't seem to be able to see that , ’ says Hernandez . |
| 6 | ‘ People do n't seem to like the look of sycamore at the moment . |
| 7 | People do n't seem to look at other people , whereas in the towns and villages in the north that I have known the locals will bid you good day or smile as you go in and out of shops or even just crossing the street . |
| 8 | ‘ People do n't seem to be drinking as much and are consequently acting more sensibly . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People do n't seem to understand that a hypnotherapist ca n't do it for them , and neither can any other magic ingredient . |
| 10 | But that , there is a lot of a symbolism there that people do n't seem to look at |
| 11 | Erm erm a lot of people do n't seem to know the rules at roundabouts and you can not |
| 12 | John fumes , like the ship , but the people do n't seem to mind . |
| 13 | People do n't seem to know the harm they are doing . |
| 14 | What people do n't seem to realise is that families outside still have to support prisoners . |
| 15 | Lord , Ellie , other people do n't seem to have the trouble I do choosing an outfit . |
| 16 | You know that as well as I do and those people do n't seem to be given the encouragement to move on to another profession . |
| 17 | People do n't seem to moan on but tend to look more at the positive angles . |
| 18 | and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for |
| 19 | Oh one or two people do n't seem to understand quietly . |
| 20 | Outside the meeting can I just say I 'm getting some of the new screening sheets through , you know first , but people do n't seem to know what they 're supposed to do with them and their in exactly the same position that they were before . |
| 21 | Latin and Anglo-Saxon temperaments are at variance about what would constitute an acceptable noise level ; and young people do not seem to be so intolerant of noise as their elders . |
| 22 | More experienced people do not seem to understand more of BSL . |
| 23 | In my personal opinion , the new inflationary model is now dead as a scientific theory , although a lot of people do not seem to have heard of its demise and are still writing papers as if it were viable . |
| 24 | Leaving out poor and working people does n't seem right . |