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didn't and seem
A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.
It didn't seem to tell her anything.
Jess didn't seem too sure himself.
They didn't seem to be able to think of any.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
I'd thought him a pimp or procurer but he didn't seem to be.
Sometimes he didn't seem to because he hid them so well he couldn't find them himself or because he looked and didn't find anything and figured he hadn't hid one after all or had drunk it up.
But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.
There didn't seem to be any signs of a struggle.
When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.
Of course she wasn't herself right now, but as her strength came back her spirits didn't seem to rise with it.
Miss Jen was funny that way, funny that she didn't seem to take to his ideas and perk up.
He didn't look like what I thought of as an old man, and his lively and erudite speech made him seem even younger.
But it didn't seem fair.
" He didn't seem to have just one way to solve a problem ," she said.
In other accounts, they seem to be trying to suppress information by trying to convince their target that the event in question didn't happen.
According to his mother, " he flunked everything ", and " he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio.
He didn't seem to be singing.
Ray watched Dean's powerful acting on the screen ; but it didn't seem possible that it was the same person in the room.
Mendes said, " I wanted that not just because it was funny ... but because I didn't want it to seem rehearsed.

didn't and think
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
But that had been a time before all this, a time he didn't think about.
Still I didn't think she was twotiming me with Precious right then.
I think his name stopped the snoring but he didn't move except to roll a little when I shoved him.
Somehow Winston didn't think she'd take to window boxes.
Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??
This officer had asked Lizzie if she suspected her Uncle Morse, and she replied she didn't think he did it because he left the house before the murders and returned after them.
They were both breathing heavily, out cold, and Shayne didn't think either of them had recognized him or could describe him.
I didn't think there was any reason to ''.
You may think we didn't need Nancy and Jean, but you always get what you can when you can, and we had no guarantee that a fingerprint record on them couldn't be useful before we were through with this case.
`` I didn't think Accacia knew so many big words, Lieutenant ''.
And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.
But I didn't really think it was as simple as that, nor did anyone else.
`` I didn't think it was necessary ''.
You didn't think it was necessary ''.
What I didn't want to do is the quodlibet method ... wouldn't it be nice to have three songs you don't think are going to go together, and they do go together ...
Players didn't think the name " Bluebirds " was suitable for a baseball team.

didn't and attaching
Nine land owners filed a motion in the Alberta Appeal Court in mid-July, seeking permission to challenge the ruling on the grounds that council acted contrary to both a local by-law and the Calgary regional plan, didn't adequately explain its decision, and overstepped its powers by attaching conditions.

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