Example sentences of "he did not seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not seem to like what he saw . |
| 2 | He did not seem to like it very much either , but he was perfectly good-natured and only jibbed at the dressing up . |
| 3 | He did not seem to like what he saw . |
| 4 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 5 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 6 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 9 | He did not seem to have heard . |
| 10 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 11 | He did not seem to hear her . |
| 12 | He did not seem to hear , so I left him bending over his leg and filing away at his iron chain like a madman . |
| 13 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 14 | In any case , he did not seem to know . |
| 15 | He did not seem to know how to play , would not settle down , ran about too much and fought with the other children . |
| 16 | A bad sign for Salter , although he did not seem to know it . |
| 17 | He did not seem to share my relief that the mystery was solved . |
| 18 | Because he did not seem to understand , I added , ‘ We use them as money , to pay for things , you see . ’ |
| 19 | He did not seem to recognize me . |
| 20 | He did not seem to dine out , there are no bills from wine merchants . ’ |
| 21 | However , he did not seem to comprehend the possibility that self organisation and compulsion are mutually exclusive . |