Example sentences of "do [adv] seem like " in BNC.

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1 What did perhaps seem like a continuation of the miracle was the way in which Patrick had regained his healthy appearance and good looks .
2 Quite a respectable neighbourhood , although he did not seem like a man of business .
3 These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes .
4 The militants had gained control and it did n't seem like Britain at all .
5 But it all seemed very appropriate and did n't seem like a headstrong , desperate manoeuvre in any sense .
6 It did n't seem like a diet — in fact , if there was one sentence that kept reappearing in most of the letters I received , it was : ‘ You ca n't call this a diet , it 's more a way of eating ’ .
7 Microsoft Corp may be planning to port NT to the PowerPC like Computer Reseller News suggested last week but in sounding out the Motorola people on the subject it did n't seem like anything was imminent — and they want all the key operating systems on the thing .
8 It did n't seem like a very good sign .
9 Did n't seem like your style , somehow . ’
10 — it did n't seem like light at all .
11 ‘ It did n't seem like a dream . ’
12 You did n't seem like you knew her when you saw her
13 ‘ It do n't seem like it 's even begun . ’
14 " Although they 're so big , they do n't seem like fighters to me .
15 Do n't seem like three years .
16 And Henry Fonda 's Tom Joad is so human that it does not seem like acting .
17 Strange how certain areas seem to call out to me , wrote Harsnet , and working on them does n't seem like work at all , more like simply breathing .
18 He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them .
19 It does n't seem like it if you consider some of the most recent press reports : endless bickering about which London group will bid for the Olympics in the year 2000 ; the decision for the 1992 Games not to allow the slower marathoners to finish in the stadium because they will interfere with the closing ceremony ; Charlie Francis 's cynical opinion that most of the world 's top athletes are on drugs .
20 But it does n't seem like that to them at the time .
21 Marshall do provide , as an optional extra , the MPM 4E footswitch ; this will call up patches 1 to 4 , and although this does n't seem like many sounds , most guitarists would probably find that adequate .
22 It does n't seem like revenge . ’
23 It does n't seem like a house .
24 Sometimes I feel so strongly I want to do that — touch you — and yet it does n't seem like my idea .
25 ‘ It does n't seem like that when he 's here . ’
26 It does n't seem like 50 years ago .
27 I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’
28 This does indeed seem like getting something for nothing , but is it really ?
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