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 . |