Example sentences of "do [adv] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed : |
| 2 | The aunt did not like Conradin and was often unkind to him . |
| 3 | Ivy , however , did not like friends dying ; it made her angry if she felt they were leaving her too soon . |
| 4 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 5 | Polybius , who did not like Timaeus , admitted that he had taken trouble to get information about the West . |
| 6 | Vi did not like mysteries . |
| 7 | Elizabeth did not like detective stories , because someone was usually hanged at the end of them . |
| 8 | She was a careful , punctilious girl but one who did not like responsibility , not even the responsibility of knowing when and how to lie for her superior . |
| 9 | The subversive implications of Lamarck 's thought — in particular the implication that a person 's character , destiny and deserts are not wholly determined by his breeding — aroused some disfavour : Napoleon did not like Lamarck . |
| 10 | Q : I take it you did not like school ? |
| 11 | He did not like Daniel , or her marriage , and made that clear . |
| 12 | Mrs Mantini did not like Rachaela to sit and read in the shop . |
| 13 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 14 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 15 | Merymose did not like Kenamun , neither did he trust him ; and if the case were solved , Kenamun would take the credit . |
| 16 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 17 | It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life . |
| 18 | Perhaps as a child Joyce simply knew that she did not like birds and felt uneasy if one came near her . |
| 19 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 20 | She did not like cooking . |
| 21 | Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations . |
| 22 | Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was younger , I used to wish Bartholomew was my brother because , God forgive me , I did not like Ralph . ’ |
| 24 | He did not like cricket or football . |
| 25 | He did not like Courbet 's subject . |
| 26 | You did not like Nicola Sharpe , did you , thought Dexter , listening to the verbal stiletto slip between the dead woman 's ribs . |
| 27 | With many smiles and good-nights , the four went upstairs and another meeting took place in the newly-painted room , where they sat on the floor , and discussed the new problem posed by Faye and Roberta , who did not like Comrade Andrew 's role in their affairs . |
| 28 | The Lords of Trade did not like colonies owned by a single proprietor . |
| 29 | Fillis did not like horses . |
| 30 | He did not like horses and rode badly . |