Example sentences of "[not/n't] seem [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one farmer , however , who did not seem to notice her , and this annoyed her a little . |
| 2 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 3 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her eyes were wild and did not seem to see him , her wings were smashing at the bars and branch in her cage , and she was over and up to the top . |
| 6 | But when Fleury breathlessly informed Dr McNab of his diagnosis McNab did not seem to take it very seriously . |
| 7 | David Profumo ( Daily Telegraph ) did not seem to take it very seriously : ‘ Unless your literary menu is gamier than most , it is rare to come across a novel in which the author-narrator claims to have sodomised one of his own female characters . |
| 8 | The thought did not seem to disturb him unduly . |
| 9 | What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it . |
| 10 | Up ahead there is the sound of automatic fire , but it does not seem to effect us . |
| 11 | Her own was shaking , she could not seem to stop it . |
| 12 | It was great and they did not seem to cause us many problems . |
| 13 | He did not seem to like it very much either , but he was perfectly good-natured and only jibbed at the dressing up . |
| 14 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 15 | Much that we read does not seem to affect us very much — if at all . |
| 16 | you just can not seem to get it out of your |
| 17 | The irony did not seem to strike him . |
| 18 | I must admit I do not seem to know them as I used to years ago , apart from a couple of detectives who come into the shop . |
| 19 | A bad sign for Salter , although he did not seem to know it . |
| 20 | The fellow did not seem to understand me , for he simply said again : ‘ You wo n't see a better view in the whole of England . |
| 21 | I showed her the letter , but she looked confused and could not seem to understand it , so I had to explain . |
| 22 | She did not seem to recognize him . |
| 23 | He did not seem to recognize me . |
| 24 | She did not seem to hear him . |
| 25 | She did not seem to hear him . |
| 26 | He did not seem to hear her . |
| 27 | Tutilo did not seem to hear her . |
| 28 | She did not seem to hear me . |
| 29 | She did not seem to hear me . |
| 30 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |