Example sentences of "[pron] do [adv] seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not seem to be alone in this response . |
| 2 | Anyway , since I do not seem to be the owner of a super-fit body I thought it best this year to enter an event that required the minimum of movement . |
| 3 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 4 | I do not seem to be able to make a speech without an intervention from the hon. Gentleman . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I do n't seem to be able to find mine . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't seem to be able to take it in . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't seem to be successful at anything . |
| 8 | To an almost hurtful degree , I do n't seem to be their type . |
| 9 | But I do n't seem to now . |
| 10 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't seem to be able to do any of the things she wants me to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't seem to be getting anywhere with this damn machine , ’ he said with exasperation . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 14 | right card comes up here , which I do n't seem to be getting a turn up ! |
| 15 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |
| 16 | ‘ And I did n't seem to be doing much that was any use . |
| 17 | I did n't seem to be able to move my legs properly . |
| 18 | Upstairs , Fleury had taken the pistol to pieces ( as far as it could be taken to pieces which did not seem to be very far ) and put it together again . |
| 19 | Greg was uncertain how to respond to this addendum , which did not seem to be addressed to him . |
| 20 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 21 | Apart from that , I do not think that I learned a great deal from Conservative Members ' contributions to the debate — except , perhaps , that the hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , who is not noted for his breadth of vision , does not like Labour councillors , which did not seem to me to advance the argument very much . |
| 22 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 23 | But the films had strange names which did n't seem to Dot to mean anything . |
| 24 | When you were home — which did n't seem to be very often ! — you did n't want to listen . |
| 25 | She eventually found the River Boyne , which , according to the map , ran near Slane — which was probably a lie , she decided after making numerous unlooked-for detours because the map did n't seem to bear any relation to the roads , which did n't seem to be signposted — except for one that explained where the famous battle had taken place . |
| 26 | Forbes ( 1933 ) and Snodgrass ( 1935 ) have introduced changes in the nomenclature of the cubito-anal veins which do not seem to be widely accepted while Vignon ( 1929 ) has an unorthodox modification of the Comstock-Needham system . |
| 27 | If we can identify style markers , we shall rule out , simply by ignoring them , whole areas of the English language which do not seem to be exploited in any unusual way in a particular text . |
| 28 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |
| 29 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 30 | So that 's rather depressing actually , that a lot of students will go into RADAR and various other sorts of defence things which do n't seem to me to be increasing the sum of human happiness . |