Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] like [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not even like to see her , it makes me uncomfortable and I wish her gone , as quickly as possible . ’ |
2 | ‘ I do n't just like to do ballet — I like disco dancing , too , ’ he revealed to us . |
3 | I do n't even like to think about it . ’ |
4 | I do n't always like to disturb you . ’ |
5 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
6 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
7 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
8 | ‘ Nah , I do n't really like to look back too much . |
9 | I did , I did n't even like to move |
10 | I did not like to ask ; I had not even liked to ask Leo . |
11 | In an awful way ( you did n't even like to think it ) this improved him , made him less superior . |
12 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
13 | We laugh about the whole experience now , but we do n't really like to dwell on particular moments too long . |
14 | They do n't even like to say the words open fields , thought Dorcas . |
15 | Er they do n't particularly like to make a , a noise , but some , some do if it 's quick . |
16 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
17 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |