Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fashion Editor Caroline Baker was delighted to hear that she has always liked ethnic clothes . |
| 2 | ‘ Why did you rush off like that this afternoon ? ’ |
| 3 | The two men seem genuinely to like one another . |
| 4 | All she 'll do , is she 'll sleep through to , she 'll sleep through to like six , and then get up and that 's it for the day . |
| 5 | went down to like this kind of stuff here . |
| 6 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 7 | It was also revealed in a vision that the future pope should take the Church as his wife , and more such visions were experienced but , says the biographer , he refrains from recounting them because Lothar did not like such phenomena to be reported . |
| 8 | The girl and the new man did not like each other . |
| 9 | The captain and Mr Trelawney still did not like each other , and the squire did n't try to hide it . |
| 10 | I am sure they did not like each other . ’ |
| 11 | Worse , he and Jessica did not like each other much . |
| 12 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
| 13 | They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it . |
| 14 | She was an Englishwoman and she did not like hot countries or a lot of noise . |
| 15 | He did not like that . |
| 16 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher did not like that thought , not one little bit . |
| 18 | Ellen did not like that suggestion . |
| 19 | I did not like that . |
| 20 | And I did not like that … |
| 21 | But he was a Catholic , of course , and my Scots lords did not like that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She did not like that accusation . |
| 24 | Coach Olsen ( which is a mastermind on football and builds some of his philosphy on a book written by and old english gentleman kicked out by the FA years ago ) did not like that fact that Sorloth prioritied ( ? ) his club football — and Sorloth might have weakened his position . |
| 25 | One reviewer questioned whether the examinations were properly interpreted , and another did not like one test we used . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Wakefield said that he did not like private institutional care . |
| 27 | D-type 110s were fitted with 601A units , which did not like warm starts , the Chief had been told that often enough , he was behaving like a Madchen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it . |
| 30 | Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it . |