Example sentences of "[coord] he do [adv] seem " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She looks as if she 's asleep and he does n't seem to be having much fun either . ’ |
2 | He 's got his teeth into this , he 's angry and he does n't seem to have a lot to live for really . |
3 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
4 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
5 | He realises that his value of her has decayed , and he does not seem broken-hearted . |
6 | I watched him against Ipswich on the box , and he does not seem as commited as some of the other players . |
7 | At the hospital Guy 's reflexes were all right , and he did not seem to have any brain damage , so the doctors told his father that he just had concussion . |
8 | The other boys shied away from him , and he did n't seem to notice an absence of their friendship … |
9 | No one had consulted him and he did n't seem to want to talk about it . |
10 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
11 | He would find anybody 's weak spots and he did n't seem to have any himself . |
12 | And then she remembered what had happened to Alice and he did n't seem nice any more , just big and handsome and rather frightening , standing there in his tight jeans and his bright shirt , looking at her . |
13 | He seemed to know how to do everything that came with running a resort and he did n't seem to mind doing any of it . |
14 | Well no er and he did n't seem that bothered anyway . |
15 | I 've explained that it 's the King 's personal property until safely delivered to the addressee , but he does n't seem to understand . ’ |
16 | Rob Bettinson , the director , has deduced that he ought to have these images plus disc-jockeys , radio commercials , midwestern hops , but he does n't seem to know why . |
17 | The company 's head of production , Walter Mycroft , had been a founding member of the Film Society , but he does n't seem to have had very much interest in nurturing talent . |
18 | ‘ We try to give him a little less tranquilliser each time , so that he might gradually get over it , but he does n't seem to get any better . |
19 | I know he dances quite well , and his clothes are all right ; but he does n't seem to have read anything worth reading … ’ |
20 | But he does n't seem able to stay away . |
21 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
22 | but he does n't seem actually willing to move out |
23 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
24 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
25 | But he does not seem to have noticed that Sulla and his friend Pompey were heading for self-deification : death spared him the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar , Posidonius found mystical postures and bogus oracles among the supporters of the slave-king Eunus and of the barbarous Mithridates . |
26 | But he does not seem to have tried to give a description of the Roman system of m unicipia and coloniae , Latin allies and other confederates . |
27 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
28 | Do Souza Silva reached Marrakesh only the day before after a 7000K flight from Rio , but he did n't seem jet-lagged . |
29 | I do n't know if he had been lunged before , but he did n't seem to have much idea about it and was wary of the lunge whip at first . |
30 | All the same he seemed popular backstage and the girls liked him , but he did n't seem to bother much about them . |