Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |
| 2 | However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed : |
| 3 | Clients did n't like being told they had been manipulated , and in the circumstances would be likely to terminate relations with that dealer . |
| 4 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 5 | The animals did not like the sound of that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Warner Brothers did n't like the idea because of litigation etc . |
| 8 | Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities . |
| 9 | On–y the other day she was saying to me that people with no parents did n't like being asked questions . ’ |
| 10 | As my parents did n't like the idea of me going to live in the city on my own , they decided to move with me . |
| 11 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 12 | Well some p , parents did n't like it did they ? |
| 13 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 14 | Nails did not like evenings at home , which is why he stayed out . |
| 15 | The geese did n't like that much . |
| 16 | But his dogs did n't like men folk , I do n't know why if they d the men folk went near the dogs would growl . |
| 17 | and though they went away and the bomb squad came they went away they they had a problem with their vehicles and the second lot of dogs did n't like the area either |
| 18 | But he also said that dogs did not like to hunt with him at night … |
| 19 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 20 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 21 | Though the tenants did n't like living there , they grew into a community in the course of their campaigns : " We 're like old friends now , in and out of each other 's houses , " said one of their organisers . |
| 22 | A lot of the senior officers did n't like the houses being unattended . |
| 23 | The garden is on sandy soil ( those monks did not like damp chasubles ) , and in the accumulated rocks and rubble of the old buildings water simply disappears . |
| 24 | Ludens did not like this picture . |
| 25 | Camille felt intimidated and envious : she thought the girls did n't like the look of her and suspected she was after their jobs , and she felt like an interloper . |
| 26 | He was successful with his dance troupes for many years despite the fact that young girls did not like working for him as he was notorious for his wandering hands and slimy advances . |
| 27 | But some of these young mothers did not like losing their figures , and also found the stretch marks particularly hard to deal with . |
| 28 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 29 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 30 | And the traditional religious leaders did not like it . |