Example sentences of "she liked [art] " in BNC.

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1 A second explanation occurred to her , one she liked no better than the first .
2 She liked a man with a sense of humour .
3 She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it .
4 Emily decided that she liked a small sapphire flanked by diamonds .
5 It made a star out of Birmingham 's Janice Nicholls who , when she liked a record , said : ‘ Oi 'll give it foive ’ in a Brummy twang .
6 She liked a party and enjoyed the company of Lord Cumbermound , her cousin by marriage .
7 She liked a good blame and saw great possibilities in this one .
8 She liked a decisive man , she said .
9 She liked a man to have strong features .
10 I know she liked the theme music .
11 She liked the Hungarian manager with his charm and evident desire to please , his pride in his dining-room and linen and his unabashed pleasure at their pleasure ; so unlike the haughty anonymity of the Palast .
12 She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’
13 He asked her whether she liked The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam .
14 ‘ He were n't sad , ’ Dot said , though she liked the sound of ‘ quite safe for always ’ .
15 SHe liked the raintimes , but this was no place to savour them .
16 She liked the clothes I supplied for her and we now collaborate on her wardrobe . ’
17 She expressed being a sensitive person who needed company ( she always had the radio on ) , she was n't thirsty and she liked the heating on but had to have windows open .
18 Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world …
19 She liked the tall lady , and she was very curious to hear all about the Brownie girls who , although real , worked magic as the Brownie folk used to do .
20 She liked the reedy smell of them .
21 Then , while a Navy surgeon lieutenant — she liked the sport and a contract that would last nicely into her forties — had come the memoranda .
22 She liked the script about a young couple in the then fashionable Swinging London , but did not feel it was quite right for her .
23 She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket .
24 She liked the hard feel of the wood under her back .
25 She liked the way the perspiration slowly emerged through her skin looking like deposited dew and she liked to be aware of the naked bodies lying in so many different postures around her .
26 She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past .
27 ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother .
28 She resisted the thought that she liked the idea of him sitting at her kitchen table .
29 She liked the RAF , but had chosen the wrong bit of it and left to become an animal nurse .
30 If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor .
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