Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 2 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 3 | For herself she was unconcerned , she had never liked the cat , did not particularly like any cats , and found this one obnoxiously self-centred and cold . |
| 4 | He did not particularly like children , though he liked trains . |
| 5 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 6 | Schinkel came specially to see the Docks , and did not even like Nash 's Regent Street . |
| 7 | Lucie did not even like the mention of miracles . |
| 8 | Staring straight at Sams , she said her daughter did not even like short journeys in the car . |
| 9 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |
| 10 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 11 | Executive search consultants became , for the first time , acceptable rather than an odd , maverick collection of people that most companies did not really like to admit using . |
| 12 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 13 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 14 | He knew that I did not really like a quiet life . |
| 15 | Nicholas 's chances of losing a war were small , because although his outlook was militaristic , he did not really like fighting . |
| 16 | But it was apparent that having gone he did not entirely like it . |
| 17 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 18 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 19 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 20 | Chana Orloff , the gifted sculptor from Palestine , did not especially like Modigliani ; she was repelled by the permanent smell of drink on his breath . |
| 21 | Hollywood did not especially like it . |
| 22 | Mary did not like her , but that was not surprising , because she did not usually like people . |
| 23 | Nikolaus Pevsner did not much like Bridehead 's rather whacky Tudor style , referring to it in his Buildings of England as ‘ excruciatingly awkward ’ . |
| 24 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 25 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry for making such a fuss , ’ Joan said apologetically , drying her eyes — before taking a few sips of the wine which she did not much like . |
| 27 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 28 | Tom did not much like the long train journey through Harrow and Northwood and Wembley down to Baker Street , and the changing and the waiting . |
| 29 | He did not like children ; he did not much like anything . |
| 30 | She did not much like his way of kissing , for it was hot and suffocating , and she was glad when he stopped , and released her , and reverted to his grip upon her knee . |