Example sentences of "it do n't seem " in BNC.

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1 We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance .
2 It do n't seem like it 's even begun . ’
3 But it do n't seem no different being at war really , do it ?
4 THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much .
5 ‘ Oh , it do n't seem right , me takin' your bed . ’
6 An dose who hav it do n't seem to care a damn ,
7 It do n't seem to be any good at all , whatsoever .
8 Well it do n't seem a lot of point in wasting petrol to come
9 I do n't know , it do n't seem to react to that , that 's a bit , mind you there again there 's only going to be that there is n't it ?
10 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
11 ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’
12 It did n't seem to rise to the occasion .
13 She felt too lethargic to speak : it did n't seem worth the effort .
14 Clarissa said it did n't seem to matter , because here he was , free again , and did n't he feel ashamed of getting tiddly at lunchtime ?
15 It did n't seem wrong or perverted .
16 It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon .
17 The militants had gained control and it did n't seem like Britain at all .
18 ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’
19 The chief problem with thallium was that it did n't seem to be used for anything much apart from the manufacture of optical lenses of a high refractive index — camera lenses , for example .
20 But somehow it did n't seem worth it . ’
21 Somehow it did n't seem worth it .
22 It did n't seem quite natural to Hoomey , but he did n't comment on the fact .
23 It did n't seem to have much to do with us as we sat there making heavy sucking noises over our soup .
24 It did n't seem sensible to consent to such a young marriage , but our son Greg and his wife were only nineteen when they married , and it is a successful and happy marriage .
25 I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place .
26 It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way .
27 It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little .
28 It did n't seem quite the same , anyway , as I got bigger .
29 On rare occasions Peg Wooldridge came with the laundry as late as Wednesday , and now that Mrs Deacon was no longer there it did n't seem to matter .
30 It did n't seem to need any food , though we tried everything we thought it might like .
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