Example sentences of "[verb] like [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’
2 Well , how are you going to like us in Canada ? "
3 ‘ And are you going to like it on Omega , Jenny ? ’
4 I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job .
5 You may like you may have a try and find that you do n't particularly en er like like it after all .
6 You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time .
7 ‘ We need help to try to become whole people , and to learn to start liking something about ourselves . ’
8 The German urban commercial and industrial middle classes , unlike the rural peasantry , were far from being the cowed , feudal illiterates that the Junkers would have liked them to be .
9 ‘ She would have liked them to be contributed to his regimental museum . ’
10 But North would doubtless have liked him to ; for even Poindexter confessed that he could hardly hold back from revealing , just once , the glorious ruse with which the president 's dearest cause was being supported .
11 He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something .
12 And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school .
13 ‘ I worked hard on my whole game last week at home , but it 's not as good as I would have liked it to be . ’
14 I would have liked you in my class .
15 Gloxinias do n't seem to like it at all , but that 's been my only failure .
16 But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents .
17 Neither of them had liked him at all .
18 She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise .
19 She greeted him with pleasure , for she had liked him from the start .
20 You have to like them as feet .
21 ‘ I have to like them on the phone , ’ she says .
22 We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them .
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