Example sentences of "n't seem [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is much the same in all four cities : social conservatives trying to push their ideas through school boards , parents frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't seem to teach children to figure , write or read . |
| 2 | History did n't seem to accommodate people like Charlie , it dealt with concepts like social mobility , observable through statistics , or political power , not single units of humanity . |
| 3 | I now have a hell of a lot more time for people but at the same time I do n't seem to tolerate fools as well as I used to . |
| 4 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 5 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |
| 6 | ‘ They do n't seem to like honey , Agnetha , ’ she said . |
| 7 | He put out his hand to touch the shiny paint but there was a man at the wheel who did n't seem to like Stuart . |
| 8 | I think what they mean is that they appear so intent on their work that they do n't seem to notice onlookers . |
| 9 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 10 | It did n't seem to take Bett the same way though . |
| 11 | In those days women did n't seem to take part time jobs or jobs at all . |
| 12 | He did n't seem to take offence at my lack of enthusiasm for the system which had made religion into something you did in your home or in private or at its most social — in the privacy of a cubicle in Major TOM . |
| 13 | They don do n't seem to take notice of what the teachers said . |
| 14 | For a start , older women in love look better ; they do n't seem to need HRT , they 're sweeter tempered , happier and generally more generous to other women . |
| 15 | The trouble was , Mrs Phipps did n't seem to need sympathy . |
| 16 | ‘ This house , ’ said Anne , ‘ it does n't seem to make sense . |
| 17 | And not happy about the structure of pricing for travel whether you have a single or return or s erm a saver they er they do n't seem to make sense in many cases . |
| 18 | I simply could n't believe it … it did n't seem to make sense and I thought I must be mistaken but I 'm sure I was n't … ’ |
| 19 | It does n't seem to make sense to me . |
| 20 | Preston 's Auntie Ethel did n't seem to think Preston could spell until he went to university . |
| 21 | I think there 's something that we have n't discussed , and that 's that , doctors do n't seem to prescribe tranquillizers to men , it 's women , and they do wrongly prescribe them to women . |
| 22 | They do n't seem to have silver ones . |
| 23 | He does n't really , does n't seem to have room for his idea of having independently motivated syntactic structure I do n't know why cos simple idea , but I think |
| 24 | Adam said all right , not to worry , he would manage without , but this did n't seem to please Lewis either . |
| 25 | here they do n't seem to keep horses/mules/donkeys , but one sees water-buffalo ponderously and patiently pulling ploughs through the ooze of the paddy-fields . |
| 26 | Not giving Gina housekeeping did n't seem to solve Nigel 's financial problems . |
| 27 | I know jackets protect your arms from thorns and falls but you do n't seem to get brambles or stony ground in show rings . |
| 28 | I suppose that 's why you do n't seem to mind Nicky and Florian knowing about it after all now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 30 | You do n't seem to know Father and what lies behind his jolly façade . |