Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not like to think of her , shutting herself away , unwell. ! |
| 2 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 3 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 4 | But I do not like a company of bare-footed soldiers . |
| 5 | But I do not like everyone to know they are here . |
| 6 | I have great difficulty in distinguishing between my property and anyone else 's , or at least I used to , but I do not like to be dismissed as stupid . |
| 7 | He does sound like a Liberal , but I do not like to explore the murky recesses of the Chancellor 's mind . |
| 8 | But I do not like secrets . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd go and give him a hand but I do not like ladders Fun is n't it ? |
| 10 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 11 | I believed their arguments on physical grounds , but I did not like the mathematical way in which they calculated the emission . |
| 12 | Why such a bizarre notion should have entered her head I can not imagine , but I did not like to disillusion her , so I told her what I could . |
| 13 | I mostly enjoyed art and maths but I did not like P.E . |
| 14 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 15 | ‘ But you do not like your work ? ’ |
| 16 | But she did not like the way his eye followed a pretty girl , nor the way theirs could sometimes follow him . |
| 17 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 18 | She thought the name faintly familiar , and faintly Scandinavian , but she did not like to ask where it came from , in case she should have known . |
| 19 | Karen wondered if Mr Roberts dealt directly with the ‘ wild men ’ , but she did not like to ask . |
| 20 | But we do not like to admit that we masturbate , because people might think that we can not get ourselves a man or a woman of our own . |
| 21 | But they do not like everything they see . |
| 22 | Children like bribes , but they do not like rewards . |
| 23 | He volunteered to go on the expedition to explore the island with Ralph and Jack , but they did not like him , so did not allow him to go . |
| 24 | He liked incense , but he did not like an excess of ceremonial ( ’ scarlet , lace etc' ) which he condemned as vulgar and intrusive . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But he did not like leaving England , even in the winter , and , among the American tourists of Barbados , they soon felt homesick : Eliot was convinced , too , that the manager of the hotel in which they were staying was trying to exploit his presence there . |
| 27 | I should add that Professor Cizek said continue with oil paintings as well as water colour , but he did not like the flat way of painting as taught at Reading . |
| 28 | Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once . |
| 29 | With such small settlements of difference , Davide could cope ; but he did not like his work . |
| 30 | But he did not like the poor . |