Example sentences of "[vb past] not like him " in BNC.

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1 With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman .
2 I did not like him then and he did not like me .
3 Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful .
4 The haste , perhaps , and the diffidence both , were encouraged by his wife , who did not like him to talk of Trade , considering it to be vulgar , and yet she was pleased to note that this casual reference to wealth met with a satisfactory , if silent , response .
5 Tildy did not like him very much , but the kiss was important to her — and now there was nothing .
6 And the reason was , quite simply , that she did not like him .
7 ‘ That man did not like me , ’ Charity said quietly , and added to herself , And I did not like him .
8 He volunteered to go on the expedition to explore the island with Ralph and Jack , but they did not like him , so did not allow him to go .
9 I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit .
10 He used to like me I think , but to tell the truth , I did n't like him much .
11 They did n't like him .
12 He 'd once tried to explain to her that he was n't popular , that people did n't like him , but she would n't have it , so he 'd given up .
13 If she did n't like him talking to Mrs Wright , she would n't like him meeting her friend and going into her house .
14 She was never as strict as his Dad and she did n't like him getting in the way in the waiting-room .
15 But I remembered him and I did n't like him , you know , not really , only I was too well-bred to say so to anyone .
16 People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man .
17 ‘ I did n't like him . ’
18 I did n't like him , resemblance or no resemblance to Uncle Bill .
19 I did n't like him at all and we did n't get on .
20 I did n't like him much because he was a terrible liar but it would n't have been fun without him .
21 We did n't like him doing this for he was rough , but we got used to it and our hands became tough .
22 She did n't like him .
23 Mrs Thatcher did n't like him — particularly after he offended the Israelis with his famous attack on an Army officer on an official visit to the occupied Gaza strip .
24 ‘ At first he thought it was just some nut who did n't like him getting married . ’
25 It seems that the only people who did n't like him were his own family .
26 She did n't like him sitting on her cushions or dirtying her nice clean towels or weeing in her water closet or dripping on her bleached oak vinyl tiled floor .
27 Danny had never liked Kate 's mother because he had always known she did n't like him .
28 I did n't like him .
29 Her interpretation of this was that I did n't like him because I was jealous of their relationship .
30 I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery .
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