Example sentences of "[verb] like [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So , perhaps it was her or and er tend to like her but but I think he , what he says he means . |
| 2 | native girls and then Paddy goes to like what do yous have for like alcohol over here ? |
| 3 | Even so , she had to pretend to like it , particularly because it had been given to her by her father . |
| 4 | The more I grew up , the more I got to like her . |
| 5 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 6 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 7 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 8 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 9 | I suppose you do n't need to like us old people , ’ and entered into detailed descriptions of the state of their bladders and allied organs , and operations ; and then the jokes and the guffaws and laughter and the pokings and teasing turned to sexual matters , and Philippa felt ashamed for them , these shrivelled old dames , with dazzling movable white teeth , among them some whom surgery permitted to continue without wombs , without breasts , so gloating on the idea of dicks and holes and hairy entrances and moist lips , and cheeks and cracks , and their skinny stiff twisted hands , the thought of them pawing and patting revolted her , but of course they wanted to touch her , her shining hair , her firm face , her lovely arms . |
| 10 | Tod is popular ; the guys appear to like him fine . |
| 11 | He had always disliked me , although he pretended to like me , but now he began to suspect his wife of visiting me privately , and he became jealous . |
| 12 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 13 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
| 14 | I suppose I felt sorry for him ; I tried to like him . |
| 15 | The historian and jurist Boris Chicherin , who was predisposed to like him , believed that Alexander had been denied " an upbringing capable of providing him with guidelines in the precarious circumstances in which he found himself " . |
| 16 | As well as you liking the food , the food has to like you . |
| 17 | They want to like you — because they like me . |
| 18 | How would you answer the allegation that that is unduly restrictive , bearing in mind the sort of factors which Professor Lock referred to like us all needing and liking more space ? |
| 19 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've heard of men buying their wives jewellery , cars , houses even — but a hotel , just because she happens to like it ? ’ |
| 21 | Numbers of people seemed to like her . |
| 22 | No one in Coniston talked about crazy Demdykes ; and her cousins , Robin and Jenny , seemed to like her and want to be friends . |
| 23 | Alix spent three months working as an au pair girl — working very hard , for no pay — in a suburb of Paris , bored out of her mind most of the time , but strangely , surprisingly consoled by the youngest member of the large family , a baby , which , unlike its larger siblings , seemed to like her . |
| 24 | Jannie really seemed to like her , in her oblique , distracted way . |
| 25 | Madeleine seemed to like him as he was , so why should he worry about something that was n't important any more ? |
| 26 | Roland liked Fergus because Fergus seemed to like him . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the problem that Evelyn seemed to like him . |
| 28 | ‘ And yet you seemed to like him . ’ |
| 29 | Anthony had written that Julia seemed to like him , and so perhaps she could keep him out of their way . |
| 30 | My first boyfriend seemed to like me , specs and all . |