Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also revealed in a vision that the future pope should take the Church as his wife , and more such visions were experienced but , says the biographer , he refrains from recounting them because Lothar did not like such phenomena to be reported . |
| 2 | The girl and the new man did not like each other . |
| 3 | The captain and Mr Trelawney still did not like each other , and the squire did n't try to hide it . |
| 4 | I am sure they did not like each other . ’ |
| 5 | Worse , he and Jessica did not like each other much . |
| 6 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
| 7 | They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it . |
| 8 | She was an Englishwoman and she did not like hot countries or a lot of noise . |
| 9 | He did not like that . |
| 10 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 11 | Margaret Thatcher did not like that thought , not one little bit . |
| 12 | Ellen did not like that suggestion . |
| 13 | I did not like that . |
| 14 | And I did not like that … |
| 15 | But he was a Catholic , of course , and my Scots lords did not like that . |
| 16 | He did not like that leaded panes rarely featured here ; nor that , instead of hinges , they had a sash-and-pulley arrangement , meaning the windows did not easily stay open . |
| 17 | She did not like that accusation . |
| 18 | Coach Olsen ( which is a mastermind on football and builds some of his philosphy on a book written by and old english gentleman kicked out by the FA years ago ) did not like that fact that Sorloth prioritied ( ? ) his club football — and Sorloth might have weakened his position . |
| 19 | One reviewer questioned whether the examinations were properly interpreted , and another did not like one test we used . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Wakefield said that he did not like private institutional care . |
| 21 | D-type 110s were fitted with 601A units , which did not like warm starts , the Chief had been told that often enough , he was behaving like a Madchen . |
| 22 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |
| 23 | Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it . |
| 24 | Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it . |
| 25 | I said that I did not like institutional care , whether private or public . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman said that private residential care was effectively institutional care , and went on to say that he did not like institutional care . |
| 27 | In his country it was always hot , and he did not like cold weather . |
| 28 | Stephanie did not like cut glass : she was of the generation that discovered the plain , the functional , the Finnish , Dartington . |
| 29 | Fascism did not like these substances . |
| 30 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |