Example sentences of "and they [verb] not seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 2 | They tried to be friendly ; they frequented the cafés and even ventured into people 's houses , and they did n't seem to do any harm . |
| 3 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone running to a car then it was driven off at speed , and they did n't seem to care about the traffic |
| 4 | Now he did and they did not seem absurd , they seemed like good reasons . |
| 5 | It was great and they did not seem to cause us many problems . |
| 6 | Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference . |
| 7 | He did not know the people on it and they did not seem as keen to join as he had expected . |
| 8 | And they did not seem to feel the same need to compete that men did , the urge to scatter names , achievements , possessions about , like so much status-defining dandruff . |
| 9 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |
| 10 | Persistent asexual lineages of organisms with large genomes would therefore present something of a paradox , and they do not seem to occur , at least in animals . |
| 11 | And they do n't seem to mind the rain — which surprised me . |
| 12 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 13 | Planners are not skiers ( unfortunately ) and they do n't seem able to read a map either because some of the lines defining their concentric rings go right through the middle of existing ski areas , particularly at Glenshee . |
| 14 | Well we 've been on to and they do n't seem to do an awful lot . |
| 15 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 16 | I mean myself has mentioned it now in committee but er I was a lone voice you see that 's the that 's the trouble when you 've got fifteen other members and and they do n't seem to be bothered about trees . |
| 17 | And they do n't seem to have do they ? |