Example sentences of "[noun sg] never seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 2 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
| 3 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 4 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 5 | The ball never seemed to run quite right — Wallace ( I think ) looked to have through ball on the keeper at one point , but it landed a crucial half yard in the keeper 's favour . |
| 6 | Strange to say in all Communist countries , tower-blocks were always being put up but their development never seemed to diminish the housing shortage . |
| 7 | Her father never seemed to change , she thought , noting the still-upright stance and piercing blue eyes . |
| 8 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 9 | The trouble was that the paper never seemed to get off the ground , which was typical of the Big Flame and ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ approach . |
| 10 | The sky never seemed to wake up and about the middle of the day it darkened . |
| 11 | But Finn never seemed to care , taking it all casually in his stride . |
| 12 | Life never seemed to change . |
| 13 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 14 | The fellow never seemed to age , nothing changed him ; no lines of worry on his cherubic face , while those hard , glassy eyes shimmered with a quiet amusement . |
| 15 | The plummy Home Counties accents were also said to be difficult for Americans to understand ( though this problem never seemed to arise when the same actors — James Mason , Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons — became Hollywood stars ) . |
| 16 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 17 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 18 | But the liftsystem ( button tows ) was so efficient that there were no queues and the slope never seemed overcrowded . |