Example sentences of "[pron] do seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do seem to recall something about you offering to help me with the party preparations . |
| 2 | I do seem to have the most extraordinary effect on people . |
| 3 | I do seem to be accepted as part of the regular television establishment . |
| 4 | I do seem to remember the name . |
| 5 | ‘ Makes what I do seem dull , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Although I do seem to remember a little scene after you 'd carelessly cut your hand at the fountain , when I mentioned a few more personal attributes that were to my liking . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll admit that — er — I do seem to need to get a few minor items in my life sorted out , ’ Laura told her friend nonchalantly . |
| 8 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 10 | As I say , I ca n't remember anything , but I 'm told that I did seem to enjoy annoying Old Saul , the bandy-legged and ancient white bulldog my father kept — I 'm told — because it was so ugly and it did n't like women . |
| 11 | Well , well we see that 's , that 's why and , and I did seem to go about , I do n't |
| 12 | Which did seem to point to someone who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper . |
| 13 | At least , I assume this card ( which I am returning ) concerns the man who loves collecting pubic hair — it 's much too learned and technical for me to understand most of it , but there are bits of it which do seem to make it clear . |
| 14 | Berkeley himself does seem to have been physically brave , gracious , modest , generous ( especially to his family ) , even-tempered , and usually honest . |
| 15 | Turing 's model is a prototype of a pattern-forming process which is perhaps too simple , but which does seem to be the kind of process we are looking for . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a chance to understand why women are not making it up the professional or corporate ladder , ’ Ms Gompels added , ‘ which does seem to be a waste of such a valuable resource . ’ |
| 17 | To insist on denying the reality of such causes is to draw a bizarrely hard line between the physical and the mental aspects of a human being — a line which does seem sometimes to be drawn in the social sciences , and may prove handy in academic feuds between them and biology , but which seems very badly suited to the realistic description of our lives . |
| 18 | A questionable aspect of this approach which does seem genuinely Cartesian is the suggestion that epistemology is concerned with the individual . |
| 19 | 1.64 In Chambers v Karia where the order had not assigned the payment to any particular head of damage the whole of the interim payment was deducted just from special damages and not applied pro rata to all the heads of damage awarded , which does seem to be the correct approach . |
| 20 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 21 | We were impressed with the fluency with which she manipulated her thousand word vocabulary , though speech itself did seem to be a considerable effort for her . |
| 22 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |
| 23 | The people who did seem to be enjoying things ( although they did n't much like the film ) were those who , unlike Jane , were there on their own terms . |
| 24 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |
| 25 | With his sad cry , a creature who did seem |
| 26 | ‘ You do seem to have an eye for essentials . ’ |
| 27 | You do seem to be fortunate in going to Sandgate . |
| 28 | ‘ You do seem very thin , Jill , judging from what you say in your letter . |
| 29 | And some of the things you do seem to me to be inefficient , and consequently rather a waste of energy . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you do seem to be remarkably interested in my love life . ’ |