Example sentences of "[not/n't] like [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm disturbed with what Phil says as he argues that we should trust staff but we would not like them knocking on doors . |
| 2 | The haste , perhaps , and the diffidence both , were encouraged by his wife , who did not like him to talk of Trade , considering it to be vulgar , and yet she was pleased to note that this casual reference to wealth met with a satisfactory , if silent , response . |
| 3 | She will not like me to refer to this time when she is better , Dorothea thought , she will avoid my company and we will only wish one another the most formal good morning . |
| 4 | I did n't put a blind up there cos we were so far away I do n't like them looking at your window |
| 5 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 6 | I do n't like them interfering with my normal business day . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't like her to go into a Home … |
| 8 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 9 | She was never as strict as his Dad and she did n't like him getting in the way in the waiting-room . |
| 10 | If she did n't like him talking to Mrs Wright , she would n't like him meeting her friend and going into her house . |
| 11 | She did n't like him sitting on her cushions or dirtying her nice clean towels or weeing in her water closet or dripping on her bleached oak vinyl tiled floor . |
| 12 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 13 | I know that you do n't like me talking about Ross , ’ she 'd added apologetically , ‘ but he really has been very kind and generous . ’ |
| 14 | I rather liked the name ‘ Louise ’ but not the snowballs , and from that day on until I left school the girls who did n't like me called after me : ‘ There goes Miss Louise . ’ |
| 15 | I thought , he does n't like me playing at ‘ us ’ against ‘ her ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Your wife wo n't like you acting as my second skin . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd probably heard rumours , and did n't like you fraternizing with the enemy camp . ’ |
| 18 | The other night cos I did n't like you wrote about telling Gwyneth about I do n't like the Chronicles of Narnia . |
| 19 | They still do n't like you co-habiting with er |
| 20 | they , those people do n't like it altered in any way do they ? |
| 21 | I 'd never do that to anybody and I do n't like it happening to me . ’ |
| 22 | He 's not so , he does n't like it coming to schools any more . |
| 23 | The men did n't like us to sit on the platform . |
| 24 | He does n't like us talking like this . |