Example sentences of "do [not/n't] like [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was also revealed in a vision that the future pope should take the Church as his wife , and more such visions were experienced but , says the biographer , he refrains from recounting them because Lothar did not like such phenomena to be reported .
2 The girl and the new man did not like each other .
3 The captain and Mr Trelawney still did not like each other , and the squire did n't try to hide it .
4 I am sure they did not like each other . ’
5 Worse , he and Jessica did not like each other much .
6 Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years .
7 They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it .
8 She was an Englishwoman and she did not like hot countries or a lot of noise .
9 Margaret Thatcher did not like that thought , not one little bit .
10 She did not like that accusation .
11 Coach Olsen ( which is a mastermind on football and builds some of his philosphy on a book written by and old english gentleman kicked out by the FA years ago ) did not like that fact that Sorloth prioritied ( ? ) his club football — and Sorloth might have weakened his position .
12 Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful .
13 Ellen did not like that suggestion .
14 One reviewer questioned whether the examinations were properly interpreted , and another did not like one test we used .
15 D-type 110s were fitted with 601A units , which did not like warm starts , the Chief had been told that often enough , he was behaving like a Madchen .
16 It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint .
17 Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it .
18 Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving , because the stones worked loose , and she wanted it done in asphalt ; Clara did not like crazy paving either , but felt obliged to defend it .
19 I said that I did not like institutional care , whether private or public .
20 The hon. Gentleman said that private residential care was effectively institutional care , and went on to say that he did not like institutional care .
21 In his country it was always hot , and he did not like cold weather .
22 Stephanie did not like cut glass : she was of the generation that discovered the plain , the functional , the Finnish , Dartington .
23 The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them .
24 Fascism did not like these substances .
25 The garden is on sandy soil ( those monks did not like damp chasubles ) , and in the accumulated rocks and rubble of the old buildings water simply disappears .
26 Or ( he did not like this thought ) were they winding him up ?
27 The Treasury did not like this plan at all .
28 Ludens did not like this picture .
29 I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat .
30 Sometimes it is clear that siblings do not like each other .
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