Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] like " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 He did not like the bangs , ’ says special effects boss Derek Medding .
33 He did not like the continental breakfasts on offer .
34 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 .
35 He did not like horses and rode badly .
36 To increase the chances of success , Louis offered Henry two teams of mediators ; if he did not like the methods or conclusions of the first set , he could turn to the second .
37 The autocratic old Frenchman came out of it badly and he did not like it .
38 He did not like children ; he did not much like anything .
39 Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " .
40 He did not like the city now — in fact he used to say that he disliked any place he had known before 1914 .
41 But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day .
42 But he did not like leaving England , even in the winter , and , among the American tourists of Barbados , they soon felt homesick : Eliot was convinced , too , that the manager of the hotel in which they were staying was trying to exploit his presence there .
43 I should add that Professor Cizek said continue with oil paintings as well as water colour , but he did not like the flat way of painting as taught at Reading .
44 When one of his young men buggered him , he admitted to Bobby Hunt and other intimate friends that he did not like it .
45 Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations .
46 Perhaps he did not like to argue with Jean-Claude , suspecting that my lover may have been put fully in the picture .
47 His play , The Yellow Chair , had first been presented in 1957 ; he did not like to think too closely about it , as he did not like to think too closely about any of his past work .
48 His play , The Yellow Chair , had first been presented in 1957 ; he did not like to think too closely about it , as he did not like to think too closely about any of his past work .
49 He did not like Daniel , or her marriage , and made that clear .
50 When he saw it plain he did not like it .
51 He did not like the Zoo anyway .
52 Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once .
53 He did not like it .
54 He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate .
55 In his country it was always hot , and he did not like cold weather .
56 He did not like their arrogance and exclusivity .
57 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 .
58 At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used .
59 With such small settlements of difference , Davide could cope ; but he did not like his work .
60 He did not like children .
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