Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E did n't like me . |
| 2 | I 've got him I do n't like him , do n't like him , do n't like him , do n't like him do n't like him , do n't like him , he 's okay , do n't like him , urgh he 's rubbish ! |
| 3 | It 's not a very secure way to make a living , but he has always liked puppets . |
| 4 | Edward Stratton had always been interested in machinery , or ‘ working parts ’ as he 'd always liked to think of things . |
| 5 | He did not like Courbet 's subject . |
| 6 | But , for all their excellence , he did not like , he could not agree with , what he saw . |
| 7 | He did not like cricket or football . |
| 8 | He liked incense , but he did not like an excess of ceremonial ( ’ scarlet , lace etc' ) which he condemned as vulgar and intrusive . |
| 9 | He did not like an excess of specialization and thought that a university should do what it could to counteract the trend , and help arts undergraduates to learn a bit of science or vice versa . |
| 10 | Anyway he did not like the tone . |
| 11 | He did not like to be contradicted . |
| 12 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 13 | Last Suspect , an inveterate tail-swisher , often used to sulk and pull himself up if he did not like the way a race seemed to be going . |
| 14 | She looked at him in a queer , incisive way he did not like at all . |
| 15 | He did not like that . |
| 16 | He was reluctant to take the post for two reasons : he felt that the salary was not high enough , and he did not like the idea of being confined to one place even for six months of the year . |
| 17 | In 1937 , Abu Khadra went to study science in Beirut and attended the American University — as David Damiani was to do four years later — but he did not like the course and returned to Jaffa , eventually settling for a degree in journalism at the American University in Cairo . |
| 18 | He told them that he did not like the company they were keeping — — presumably the DHAC — but he did participate . |
| 19 | He did not like to recall the indignity of it . |
| 20 | He preferred native trees but accepted some ‘ exotic foreigners ’ although larches , referred to as ‘ spike heads ’ , he did not like . |
| 21 | Neither Plato nor Aristotle would admit a student to the Academy at Athens if he did not like his face . |
| 22 | I did not like him then and he did not like me . |
| 23 | He did not like wearing suits and he liked a collar and tie even less . |
| 24 | He did not like her visits ; not only had she viewed his bum , but his rolling tears , so that he now felt a sissy . |
| 25 | Rab felt bagged by what beer he had already drank and he did not like the nickname . |
| 26 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 27 | He did not like the noise , and all these people pushing him . |
| 28 | He did not like me . |
| 29 | Though he did not like Stych much — too stuck up by far with his university degree and his oilmen friends — he hoped that Hank had not stolen the money for the car . |
| 30 | Tolkien did know ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ , though he did not like it ( Letters , p. 311 ) , probably because he thought it too sentimental . |