Example sentences of "[adv] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it gets a bit easier , because they go on to like health , age , I know I 'll be able to find loads to stuff on age , wo n't I ? |
| 2 | Or peach melba , but I only like strawberry but I thought |
| 3 | You , I 'll bring up some of my eggs , you can have some of them cos I do n't really like , I only like chocolate bars I do n't like chocolate . |
| 4 | Our landlady obviously liked Christmas for she began to prepare good fare for us , with the help of her mentally retarded maid . |
| 5 | For him , Bridgnorth would always be associated with the antics of a ghost that obviously liked railway engines and would appear from time to time to warn of impending accidents . |
| 6 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Barclaya prefers a small content of iron in its soil , but does not like calcium . |
| 8 | He did not like cricket or football . |
| 9 | We have aerobic bacteria , which need plenty of oxygen , and anaerobic bacteria which do not like oxygen . |
| 10 | Lee was startled by the almost aggressive note in Mrs Ridley 's question and had to remind herself that old people do not like change , do not like precipitate action , especially from those they have become used to . |
| 11 | Mrs Chalmers is standing beside me , tutting and shifting from foot to foot — she has varicose veins , and does not like standing , which is why she always sits down to sort the bulbs . |
| 12 | Lee was startled by the almost aggressive note in Mrs Ridley 's question and had to remind herself that old people do not like change , do not like precipitate action , especially from those they have become used to . |
| 13 | Human beings do not like change , especially as they get older . |
| 14 | It is clear from the remarks of Labour Members that they do not like change , even though they have no ideas about what should be done to improve the education system . |
| 15 | She did not like cooking . |
| 16 | Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor . |
| 17 | She liked him , for all his heavy breathing ; she did not like misunderstanding . |
| 18 | She says she does not like housework but she can manage some tasks . |
| 19 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 20 | It was something of a relief to mind and liver when Edward was assigned to help Jacques Allier , a less flamboyant man than Suffolk , who did not like champagne . |
| 21 | Elizabeth did not like detective stories , because someone was usually hanged at the end of them . |
| 22 | She was a careful , punctilious girl but one who did not like responsibility , not even the responsibility of knowing when and how to lie for her superior . |
| 23 | Elaine claimed that horses do not damage paths which are properly maintained ( ie well drained ) , but horses do not like tarmac . |
| 24 | What the critics , of the trade unions and managements alike , are really saying is this : that they do not like normality with all its faults . |
| 25 | Q : I take it you did not like school ? |
| 26 | This book does contain a few games with winners but I must say that , on the whole , I do not like elimination games . |
| 27 | The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies . |
| 28 | The Prince does not like mutton broth . |
| 29 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 30 | There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself . |