Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] seem " in BNC.
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| 61 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 62 | ‘ He did not seem in the slightest upset or nervous . ’ |
| 63 | ‘ Surprisingly enough , you did not seem to remember . ’ |
| 64 | He did not seem to dine out , there are no bills from wine merchants . ’ |
| 65 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 66 | Yet it was hard to make a good living here as the Peruvians did not seem to like their own music . |
| 67 | In the most impressive Inca ruins I had seen , the stones did not seem toppled ; the remains had too much dignity for that . |
| 68 | Viewers did not seem to be repelled by the complexities of procedures — in fact many were intrigued — but there had been reaction to the sight of empty benches . |
| 69 | Time , for the Victorian age , did not seem stopped , but — for writers such as Wells at least — purposively and positively progressive , a feeling reflected in the chronological continuity , firm resolution and frequent Bildungsroman form of their narratives . |
| 70 | Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child . |
| 71 | Mr Farraday did not seem to understand this statement , for he merely went on : ‘ I mean it , Stevens . |
| 72 | The fellow did not seem to understand me , for he simply said again : ‘ You wo n't see a better view in the whole of England . |
| 73 | 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 . |
| 74 | It is a curious fact that the poor benighted people who were unfortunate enough to live in the rural wetlands did not seem to share the prejudices of their visitors at all . |
| 75 | This did not seem to concern anyone . |
| 76 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 77 | Donald did not seem unresponsive to this notion . |
| 78 | Donald , who was still nodding his head , did not seem to notice any of this . |
| 79 | From St Paul 's Cathedral to Putney Vale Crematorium did not seem such a short distance to the neighbours , such was their generous enthusiasm for Donald 's interment , and when they heard there were plans for a memorial service at Wimbledon Parish Church , some people said it was even better to do it this way . |
| 80 | But Jazz did not seem to appreciate the beautiful simplicity of his achievement , and struck out at Nails under the water . |
| 81 | Nutty did not seem to care , concerned only for the pony . |
| 82 | Nutty screamed for Nails , who came back reluctantly but did not seem disposed to fight . |
| 83 | Seb 's father was a large , comfortable-looking man who did not seem disposed to make a fuss . |
| 84 | There was a period when the Cabinet did not seem and , in fact , was not acting with collective responsibility , because one person was not playing as a member of a team . |
| 85 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 86 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 87 | I think she spotted me , in spite of the glare of the footlights for when I called at her dressing room back-stage after the show she did not seem surprised to see me . |
| 88 | While there did not seem to be an overall shortage of teachers , their distribution was very uneven between regions , and their qualifications varied widely . |
| 89 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 90 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |