Example sentences of "i like him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like him a lot . |
| 2 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 3 | Of course I like him . |
| 4 | I like him enormously , but he was also very much under the thumb of his father . |
| 5 | ‘ I like him . |
| 6 | I … well , I like him . |
| 7 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 8 | ‘ I like him . ’ |
| 9 | I like him . ’ |
| 10 | J : I like him , he 's such a brilliant performer . |
| 11 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 12 | ‘ I like him , ’ said Dorothy , determined to show she could like the unusual . |
| 13 | I like him very much . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I like him . |
| 15 | I like him . |
| 16 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 17 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 18 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 19 | I like him very much . ’ |
| 20 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 21 | ‘ I like him , ’ said Tim . |
| 22 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 23 | I like him for being a rebel , and we agree on several issues , although I am not sure I would go along with some of his proposals to abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords . |
| 24 | " I like him too . |
| 25 | But I like him , thought Antony as they got out of the car . |
| 26 | I like him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know exactly what you hoped , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ and I like him on his own . |
| 28 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 29 | He is a rude horrible selfish man , I quite see that , but I like him personally , if you can understand that . |
| 30 | I like him , but that 's all . ’ |