Example sentences of "do not seem " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tug heard the suspicion in her voice , but it did not seem to worry the girl . |
| 32 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 33 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 34 | Aunt Louise did not seem to understand this . |
| 35 | Every week we went shopping to the town , taking a bus from the bottom of the hill : it did not seem quite safe to leave Aunt Louise and the fire together alone . |
| 36 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 37 | In any case , he did not seem to know . |
| 38 | Then he saw , with relief , that she did not seem to be badly hurt . |
| 39 | At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked . |
| 40 | His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all . |
| 41 | But she did not seem to want to see it . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 43 | It did not seem that I could survive such a volcanic attack from deep within my own system . |
| 44 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 45 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 46 | People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words . |
| 47 | He shrugged , spread his hands in the usual gesture , did not seem to care . |
| 48 | What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya . |
| 49 | They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media . |
| 50 | The shopkeeper who berated the regime for its brylcream policy accepted its definition of him as a capitalist , an entrepreneur : that did not seem justified by any sensible criterion of capitalism . |
| 51 | The distant traffic noises did not seem to interrupt the silence ; the reflective water gave to the Palace of Westminster the illusion of insubstantiality . |
| 52 | Nick Faldo , keeping a keen eye later in the evening back at his hotel on the sporadic and very fleeting general election results , did not seem unduly perturbed by his 71 . |
| 53 | That move apart , Motherwell did not seem interested in the match and it was no surprise when the Dons went further ahead in the 36th minute . |
| 54 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 55 | But , with brilliant timing , Boss Man shuddered and with an almighty roar he was up — and Berzerker was down , felled by a punch that did not seem to make contact . |
| 56 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
| 57 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 58 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 59 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 60 | 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 . |