Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 2 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 3 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 4 | They did n't like boys . |
| 5 | They did n't like Mrs Healy . |
| 6 | I moved back to Edinburgh too because er my er my family had taken a yearning for Edinburgh , they did n't like East Kilbride so I says left . |
| 7 | So they did n't like telephones . |
| 8 | Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost . |
| 9 | They did n't like newcomers , and did n't behave well towards them . |
| 10 | Cos they did n't like beef . |
| 11 | They had never liked Mr Eyadéma , who belongs to the Kabye people , because he filled the top army posts with his fellow-Kabyes . |