Example sentences of "[noun prp] do not seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Bella did n't seem to be having very much fun without him . |
| 2 | Tilda did n't seem to , but no-one understands what she thinks except Martha . " |
| 3 | Ellen does n't seem to be on yellow , is she ? |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable . |
| 5 | And Mr Hawick did n't seem to me the kind of chap who 'd put up with that . ’ |
| 6 | There was a curtness to her tone , but Debbie did n't seem at all perturbed as she grinned at them both . |
| 7 | God did not seem to be listening . |
| 8 | It was as if a subliminal message had passed between them ; as if she had said aloud , ‘ Look , I understand how things are between you and Alain Gebrec , but Iris does n't seem to and I do n't want her upset , ’ and as if he had responded , ‘ Do not worry , I will not say or do anything to hurt her . ’ |
| 9 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 10 | Indeed , schools like Burleigh do not seem to be the sort of places from which writers emerge . |
| 11 | But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed . |
| 12 | From what we know of him , Saddam does not seem to be driven primarily by any ideology . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Taylor does not seem to me to be very like Mrs Woolf or Miss Compton-Burnett or Miss Bowen , ’ I had written , for some reviewers thought her too heavily indebted to them . |
| 14 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 15 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 16 | Indeed , the Hampstead ABC did n't seem to be hungry : two rabbits in a hutch ten yards away were not touched . |
| 17 | For deep injuries to muscles and joints when Arnica does not seem to be working well enough . |
| 18 | With deep injuries to muscles and joints when Arnica does not seem to be working well enough . |
| 19 | Wilko does n't seem to be the smartest when it comes to totting up transfer prices ! |
| 20 | Maria was forced to begin believing that they represented the truth on the Thursday when , having first steeled herself to sound casual , she mentioned to Giles Estwick that Luke did n't seem to be around any longer . |
| 21 | She wandered into the kitchen , pleased with her work , relieved too that Luke did n't seem to be about . |
| 22 | And yet does n't Shetland does n't seem so difficult to un maybe it 's because we 're Orcadian but Shetland does n't seem to be so difficult to understand for somebody outside than Orcadian is I wonder why ? |