Example sentences of "[verb] not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 2 | There is a minor mystery about this mode , for Tolkien might have been expected not to like it . |
| 3 | My leg , which never mended properly after the accident , has not liked being cooped and cramped and bound , and like a mistreated animal it has turned against its master , making itself all pain . |
| 4 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 5 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 6 | Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat . |
| 7 | The spirits , for their part , are said not to like men . |
| 8 | He did not like Courbet 's subject . |
| 9 | Fascism did not like these substances . |
| 10 | But , for all their excellence , he did not like , he could not agree with , what he saw . |
| 11 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 12 | I did not like the idea very much as Sid was a smoker , and if he lit up during the night it was possible that we both could end up with a Blighty , or worse ! |
| 13 | He did not like cricket or football . |
| 14 | He liked incense , but he did not like an excess of ceremonial ( ’ scarlet , lace etc' ) which he condemned as vulgar and intrusive . |
| 15 | He did not like an excess of specialization and thought that a university should do what it could to counteract the trend , and help arts undergraduates to learn a bit of science or vice versa . |
| 16 | The house was large for their needs and soon they did not like it . |
| 17 | Anyway he did not like the tone . |
| 18 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 19 | Many analyses of the unions in the 1970s suggested that such political power as they possessed rested on their ability to defy incomes policies over time and veto ( as In Place of Strife ) or render inoperable the policies or legislation which they did not like . |
| 20 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 21 | She did not like what her life demanded of her , but she knew painfully and absolutely that the moment for truth had come . |
| 22 | They did not like it , argued against it — argued against the whole match — but she held firm . |
| 23 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 24 | And the traditional religious leaders did not like it . |
| 25 | On the same theme , the UK party made plain in a pre-European election statement why it did not like the Community . |
| 26 | Changing this number also meant changing the inscriptions on some of the camps ' memorial plaques ; some Jewish groups did not like the wording of the new inscriptions . |
| 27 | Indeed , some Tory Euro-sceptics like Teddy Taylor now see such a deal as the harbinger of a two-tier Europe in which Britain would be able to ‘ opt out ’ of policies it did not like . |
| 28 | His self-assurance comes out now in his attitude to school work : ‘ I did not like not being able to answer a question , particularly if another boy could ’ . |
| 29 | Besides , they said , he could n't punch , did not like to get hit and seemed to lack a sufficient amount of killer adrenalin . |
| 30 | The Treasury did not like this plan at all . |