Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it gets a bit easier , because they go on to like health , age , I know I 'll be able to find loads to stuff on age , wo n't I ? |
| 2 | Some are antis because they do n't like Europe full stop . |
| 3 | ‘ They do n't like women there , ’ she offered , playing with the froth on her coffee with a fingertip . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't like cattle . ’ |
| 5 | Well they do n't like Elvis . |
| 6 | And thirdly , there is a Government obstruction they do n't like policies which are presumptions against development . |
| 7 | Well all the way from , they used to come from and they used to have some sunbonnets on , I always remember they used to have the , I 'm not a dressmaker but you know a la they do n't like frills down the back that used to hang down the back and the I remember them coming round selling blocks of salt . |
| 8 | ‘ They do n't like Christabel LaMotte . ’ |
| 9 | They do n't like whities asking questions while they drink . |
| 10 | ‘ They do n't like aliens picking fights , ’ the sergeant said . |
| 11 | And they do n't like speed because they think it is not a pleasant stuff to sniff . |
| 12 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 13 | I mean people are a bit narrow in this respect you know they do n't like people to talk about it too openly — but I do because I think it 's important but the trouble is that — erm — that 's not really systematic in the sense that I do it but how many other people do it you see . |
| 14 | They do n't like outsiders . ’ |
| 15 | They do n't like Romanies at the best of times . |
| 16 | Now they they they do n't like bodies lying around unattended so the incinerators are always open for that . |
| 17 | They do n't like ambiguity or loose ends . |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't like rain . ’ |
| 19 | You cut a fresh orange and lay it in there she would n't go in there cos they do n't like cats do n't like the smell of orange . |
| 20 | They do n't like Mars Bars . |
| 21 | But if they do n't like hill life — and many do n't — they 're beaten and tortured for attempting to return . |
| 22 | It 's like expecting the class system to change once the workers have explained to the ruling class why they do n't like poverty ; or racism to go away once blacks have made clear why they find it oppressive . |
| 23 | Children like bribes , but they do not like rewards . |
| 24 | It is clear from the remarks of Labour Members that they do not like change , even though they have no ideas about what should be done to improve the education system . |
| 25 | What the critics , of the trade unions and managements alike , are really saying is this : that they do not like normality with all its faults . |
| 26 | Although they like polling elections as a publicity gimmick — if they get them right — they do not like elections technically . |
| 27 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 28 | Niki got his training in fortitude and temperance when he moved to Ferrari , where they do not like drivers to be so adventuresome as to wreck cars ; James-took a year longer to learn his lesson , at McLaren . |