Example sentences of "they do seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 2 | They do seem to be lasting awfully well . |
| 3 | Palm sanders are not a new phenomenon , but they do seem to be growing in popularity , certainly with the trade buyer . |
| 4 | ‘ But they do seem to be a long way off . |
| 5 | This may not be true , but certainly in listening to conversational English one does encounter a very large number of these and they do seem to the native speaker to have some perhaps indefinable ‘ feel ’ of something negative present in the background , as suggested above , on p. 139 ) . |