Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now goodbye ! do I not seem happy , or at least sordidly content ? |
| 2 | Why does nobody else seem to care ? |
| 3 | Halfway through a d-i-y job , when you reach for a screwdriver , do you always seem to find the right tip and size on the last you pick up ? |
| 4 | Do you always seem to be shifting things along on your worktops in order to make room to prepare something ? |
| 5 | Do they just seem to stick on tap or is it a row ? |
| 6 | So does it only seem to be |
| 7 | But would it not seem natural for the people who were helped to escape from Hitler now to help those who are resisting Saddam Hussein , and to understand the desire for liberty of the Balts ? |
| 8 | All accomplished — does it not seem plain ? — to bring her finally where she now rests . |
| 9 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand , if it came unexpectedly , and from an admired authority figure , the boy 's tutor perhaps , might it not seem like a betrayal of trust ? |
| 11 | ‘ Does it still seem reasonable ? ’ |
| 12 | Does it always seem that those biting insects get you but not your best friend ? |
| 13 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 14 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |