Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so it was a life , an approach , a horizon as necessary to the nourishment of young and old as the most penetrating picture of what we like to call reality . |
| 2 | There 's a smell of nastiness about that Fraxillian , nothing to do with what he likes to fondle . |
| 3 | They were sitting cross-legged in what he liked to call the Great Hall . |
| 4 | Normally it comes from what she likes to call her coterie of friends and advisers . |
| 5 | It differed from what she liked to think of as those warm closeted nursery days . |
| 6 | Having survived the domestic and international challenges of the 1940s , Franco ended his first decade of post-Civil War power firmly established at what he liked to call the helm of the ship of state . |
| 7 | In fact , by what we like to think is professional panache ( and crossed fingers , out of sight ) we minimise the panic and disguise it completely from the viewer . |