Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Anyway he did not like the tone . |
| 3 | On the same theme , the UK party made plain in a pre-European election statement why it did not like the Community . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Frankie did not like the dogs . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am sure Isabel did not like the idea ? ’ |
| 7 | There were those who did not like the Church 's controversial image . |
| 8 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 9 | But she did not like the way his eye followed a pretty girl , nor the way theirs could sometimes follow him . |
| 10 | Last Suspect , an inveterate tail-swisher , often used to sulk and pull himself up if he did not like the way a race seemed to be going . |
| 11 | But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less . |
| 12 | Mr Wilson-Brown , who opened the first computerised perchery barn with piped radio three months ago , said yesterday : ‘ We were concerned when production fell and realised that this was because the hens did not like the endless election news , comment and argument . |
| 13 | CLIVE DID NOT like the idea of spending the early evening with Amelia Dorf 's crowd of goat rapists and rich sickies , but as an entrepreneur he knew the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with his best customers . |
| 14 | Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities . |
| 15 | He was reluctant to take the post for two reasons : he felt that the salary was not high enough , and he did not like the idea of being confined to one place even for six months of the year . |
| 16 | In 1937 , Abu Khadra went to study science in Beirut and attended the American University — as David Damiani was to do four years later — but he did not like the course and returned to Jaffa , eventually settling for a degree in journalism at the American University in Cairo . |
| 17 | He told them that he did not like the company they were keeping — — presumably the DHAC — but he did participate . |
| 18 | Although everyone in Rush River told the story the same way , most of them said ‘ and their slaves ' instead of ‘ and their people , ’ but Martha knew that Nana did not like the word ‘ slave . ’ |
| 19 | She writes that it was ‘ one of the best , but it did not suit John , as he was accustomed to follow his whims , and invent or discover for himself , and therefore did not like the regimentation of doing things at a given time . |
| 20 | Gedge still enjoys spinning yarns and his old friend Dave Fielding was amused to read in an interview that Gedge did not like The Buzzcocks . |
| 21 | The third client simply did not like the support worker and she was withdrawn fairly quickly . |
| 22 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 23 | Edward was staring at Paula and Sally did not like the expression on his face . |
| 24 | Rab felt bagged by what beer he had already drank and he did not like the nickname . |
| 25 | Winnie , she did not like the sound of this : the pair , who , with the help of the wine and the need for more , felt fit to hint , to ( she saw Pol 's eyes , black and hard ) almost threaten . |
| 26 | He did not like the noise , and all these people pushing him . |
| 27 | I did not like the accusation of naïvety , preferring to believe that I was an honest man who found it hard to imagine how other people could live with a guilty conscience . |
| 28 | The Revd Herbert Macklin did not like the shroud brasses : |
| 29 | Ramsay for one did not like the sound of that , and said so , but Douglas cut him short , assuring that it was only a gesture . |
| 30 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |