Example sentences of "[adv] did [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the little bedroom was n't so did n't seem so damp . |
| 2 | Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child . |
| 3 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She just did n't seem to be able to hang on to men , he thought impatiently , not like his Angie , wherever she was . |
| 6 | I must say I never felt very close to my father , we just did n't seem to have anything in common . |
| 7 | They just did n't seem very exciting . |
| 8 | He just did n't seem able to put his mind fully to practising . |
| 9 | But Edward just did n't seem interested . |
| 10 | ‘ The other song was really slammin' for the dancefloor but it 's a love song and it just did n't seem right . |
| 11 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 12 | But with the younger erm West Indians I did n't feel that we we we just did n't seem to be able to find an approach . |
| 13 | But it just did n't seem to be a time when you could er get an entry . |
| 14 | The word ‘ home ’ just did n't seem to ring true any more . |
| 15 | ‘ For so long it just did n't seem real any longer . |
| 16 | I just did n't seem to be able to handle Eric on the telephone . |
| 17 | It just did n't seem like we were going to score . |
| 18 | It just did n't seem to be having any effect . |
| 19 | Suddenly though , for all she pulled back , she just did n't seem capable of moving away from him . |
| 20 | Santa was very worried about Randolph , he just did n't seem to fit in . |
| 21 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 22 | Not that the Roman aristocracy did n't look after the people who worked for them — though people nowadays do n't like it when you say so — servants did n't sleep the way they did in Tsarist Russia or at Versailles before the revolution , but it still did n't seem good enough to Anna — I told you she was American ? — so Mena always had a nice room of her own ; later on too , at Brown 's Hotel . |
| 23 | It still did n't seem quite real . |
| 24 | When I first knew him , he also did not seem quite grown up enough to be called ‘ Mr Hunt ’ or ‘ James Hunt , Esq . ’ . |
| 25 | Suddenly , Richie Quick did n't seem so real . |
| 26 | It really did not seem to be a problem . ’ |
| 27 | She really did not seem to have done her homework . |
| 28 | Sixteen weeks early , and er they er really did n't seem to stand a chance erm of living but a lot of them did and that was amazing . |
| 29 | They really did n't seem to see anything harmful in it . |
| 30 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |