Example sentences of "[verb] not like [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Christina did not like them to receive such a bad impression of Crystal Springs . |
| 4 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 5 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 6 | Her garden was a source of great pleasure and she was very proud of her wonderful displays of Pelargonuims — she did not like you to call them geraniums ! |
| 7 | He did n't like her teaching me to read either . |
| 8 | He did n't like her calling him old , though . |
| 9 | All right , dear John did n't like her going up to the loft , especially when he was out of the house . |
| 10 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 11 | He did n't like her going out looking so smart and cheerful . |
| 12 | She was never as strict as his Dad and she did n't like him getting in the way in the waiting-room . |
| 13 | ‘ At first he thought it was just some nut who did n't like him getting married . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 16 | I loved him very much and did n't like him going away . |
| 17 | We did n't like him doing this for he was rough , but we got used to it and our hands became tough . |
| 18 | I did n't like him saying that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 22 | She did n't like me wearing T-shirts with ‘ Death From Above ’ emblazoned on them at her friends ' parties in Wimbledon . |
| 23 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 24 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 25 | Yes he did n't like me to make , he liked , he did n't like me to anything that was going to upset me . |
| 26 | I rather liked the name ‘ Louise ’ but not the snowballs , and from that day on until I left school the girls who did n't like me called after me : ‘ There goes Miss Louise . ’ |
| 27 | She just says , I did n't like he walks past . |
| 28 | Yes , but you did n't like it did you ? |
| 29 | She did n't like it did she ? |
| 30 | Well some p , parents did n't like it did they ? |