Example sentences of "they do [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 | Some are antis because they do n't like Europe full stop . |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't like women there , ’ she offered , playing with the froth on her coffee with a fingertip . |
| 13 | ‘ They do n't like cattle . ’ |
| 14 | Well they do n't like Elvis . |
| 15 | And thirdly , there is a Government obstruction they do n't like policies which are presumptions against development . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't like Christabel LaMotte . ’ |
| 18 | They do n't like whities asking questions while they drink . |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't like aliens picking fights , ’ the sergeant said . |
| 20 | And they do n't like speed because they think it is not a pleasant stuff to sniff . |
| 21 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They do n't like outsiders . ’ |
| 24 | They do n't like Romanies at the best of times . |
| 25 | Now they they they do n't like bodies lying around unattended so the incinerators are always open for that . |
| 26 | They do n't like ambiguity or loose ends . |
| 27 | ‘ They do n't like rain . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They do n't like Mars Bars . |
| 30 | But if they do n't like hill life — and many do n't — they 're beaten and tortured for attempting to return . |