Example sentences of "like [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different . |
| 2 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 3 | As well as receiving your letters , we like to meet you at the Royal Show , reader workshops and garden visits . |
| 4 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 5 | Fronted by Alan Hull , Lindisfarne had some memorable hits like Meet Me on The Corner and Lady Eleanor but Fog on the Tyne was n't a hit until Gazza got his tonsils around it . |
| 6 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 7 | I like baking it for him ! |
| 8 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 9 | But a line must be drawn somewhere , and I wold like to put it on record that I have no confidence in England . |
| 10 | I know about things you like to do and the people you like to do them with . |
| 11 | Besides , some heads like to lord it over local parents — particularly over the pushy ones . |
| 12 | They have got enough money but they like to keep it for as long as possible . |
| 13 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I like having him in the house , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Would any ex-members of the Queens Royal Irish Hussars , 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , or 4th Queens Own Hussars , who are interested in forming a home counties branch of the regimental association , like to contact me at the address below ? |
| 16 | There are those who like to hang them on the wall and look at them , but generally speaking that 's taken to be pretty eccentric behaviour . ’ |
| 17 | He 's back tomorrow on Channel Four to anchor their weekly live coverage of the Italian league , the best club football in the world , and he said : ‘ This will be much more like the Premier League than what we like to call ours in England . ’ |
| 18 | They call her The Green Goddess , and Queen of the Greens ; they like to photograph her in supermarkets against the Ecover , looking wholesome and fresh , youthful but still somehow serious . |
| 19 | And of course , candles light being a symbol for whatever you like to take it as . |
| 20 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 21 | We like to lend them to friends of ours . ’ |
| 22 | She would n't go out in the car the other week so we like chained her to the wall we were . |
| 23 | But I hardly like to tell you about the disaster that befell Angela within the next few minutes . |