Example sentences of "[verb] n't seem [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear ventilators pumping somewhere deeper in the complex , but they did n't seem to be equal to the job . |
| 2 | She 's found that my glasses did n't seem to be right . |
| 3 | Indeed , the Hampstead ABC did n't seem to be hungry : two rabbits in a hutch ten yards away were not touched . |
| 4 | They did n't seem to be embarrassed , whereas I used to try and hide everything and felt conscious of myself . ’ |
| 5 | She just did n't seem to be able to hang on to men , he thought impatiently , not like his Angie , wherever she was . |
| 6 | ‘ I was beside myself with fear , and started panicking as she did n't seem to be able to swim . |
| 7 | But with the younger erm West Indians I did n't feel that we we we just did n't seem to be able to find an approach . |
| 8 | She ignored the question , and did n't seem to be able to understand his agitation . |
| 9 | She did n't seem to be able to cope with him . |
| 10 | ‘ He was playing a complicated character ; actors with far more experience would have found it difficult — he did n't seem to be able to get a hold of it somehow , to adapt . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't seem to be able to move my legs properly . |
| 12 | I just did n't seem to be able to handle Eric on the telephone . |
| 13 | Besides , now that she had stopped walking she did n't seem to be able to stop herself from shivering . |
| 14 | those two things to me do n't seem to be compatible . |
| 15 | Er and er well it 's not just one innovative idea er it 's just innovative idea after idea er which is encouraging because it er means that the company is not resting on its laurels er having found an avenue and an opportunity they do n't seem to be content just to sit expanding and developing that and doing nothing else . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't seem to be successful at anything . |
| 17 | You do n't seem to be sure whose fault it is but ‘ let's blame Paul anyway . ’ |
| 18 | That 's for the cops now but they do n't seem to be worried . |
| 19 | Except for the fact that they have the boat , they do n't seem to be obvious candidates for a really good time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I do n't seem to be able to find mine . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't seem to be able to take it in . |
| 22 | Do n't seem to be able to make them hear . |
| 23 | I intended Birdland to be explicit but fun , a fantasy to counteract the Black Kiss style of violent sex comic , but these people do n't seem to be able to see that , ’ says Hernandez . |
| 24 | The other thing was we do n't seem to be able to keep a manager for very long without eating them — they start to shake and have nervous breakdowns . |
| 25 | The gas and electricity companies suffer from the scourge of meter-reading and despite 3m unemployed still do n't seem to be able to find anybody to go round knocking on doors at times when anybody that works might actually be at home , and the water companies are moving to metering . |
| 26 | You come here to offer me your undying devotion while you have an entanglement with the lady whom we do n't seem to be able to keep out of the conversation . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately many researchers report that they do n't seem to be able to find time for such ‘ extra ’ activities because of overload from other more pressing work . |
| 28 | ’ You know , Mr. Kopek , ’ she said at last , ’ I do n't know whether it 's this new technology or just the way I 'm feeling this morning , but I just do n't seem to be able to take this in . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't seem to be able to do any of the things she wants me to do . |
| 30 | Even hardened smokers do n't seem to be able to take this direct onslaught from the pungent and reaching fingers of smoke . |