Example sentences of "[pron] liked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I liked — I was amazed , never yet having had time for or interest in such delights — I liked to be touched by him . |
| 2 | I was surprised to be able to stand and read as long as I liked without feeling a hand on my shoulder . |
| 3 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 4 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 5 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 6 | Sunday was my day : I could do what I liked with it . |
| 7 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 8 | What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale . |
| 9 | That was one of the things I liked about him . |
| 10 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 11 | But there are so many different styles in Texas and I think that 's what I liked about growing up there ; you could just hear so much stuff . ’ |
| 12 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 13 | It was one of the things I liked about you . ’ |
| 14 | What I liked about this letter was the phrase ‘ if you tell me that I have it ’ . |
| 15 | Benjamin listened — and that 's what I liked about my master , he never judged , he never condemned . |
| 16 | Stok was something no computer could deal with ; perhaps that 's what I liked about him . |
| 17 | That 's what I liked about Benjamin , always kind and considerate , and of course he need n't have advised old Shallot to stay out of danger ! |
| 18 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 19 | That is what I think I liked about her . |
| 20 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 21 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 22 | I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart . |
| 23 | Well I think colour 's awful important so I liked in Marion 's an awful lot . |
| 24 | In no time he had calls from husky security officers who liked to be called ‘ Marcia ’ . |
| 25 | In striving for more respectable customers the exhibitors learnt that it was not just the most affluent who liked to be treated with dignity and style . |
| 26 | But though my spirits were high , the shadow of that man , who liked to be called the Ángel of Death , travelled with me , the memory of his good looks , his well-oiled virility , above all Iris Sunderby 's apparent infatuation , constantly there in my mind . |
| 27 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 28 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 29 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 30 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |