Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 2 | here well I did tonight like cos I was up at half five |
| 3 | He did not like Courbet 's subject . |
| 4 | Fascism did not like these substances . |
| 5 | But , for all their excellence , he did not like , he could not agree with , what he saw . |
| 6 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 7 | I did not like the idea very much as Sid was a smoker , and if he lit up during the night it was possible that we both could end up with a Blighty , or worse ! |
| 8 | He did not like cricket or football . |
| 9 | He liked incense , but he did not like an excess of ceremonial ( ’ scarlet , lace etc' ) which he condemned as vulgar and intrusive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The house was large for their needs and soon they did not like it . |
| 12 | Anyway he did not like the tone . |
| 13 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 14 | Many analyses of the unions in the 1970s suggested that such political power as they possessed rested on their ability to defy incomes policies over time and veto ( as In Place of Strife ) or render inoperable the policies or legislation which they did not like . |
| 15 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 16 | She did not like what her life demanded of her , but she knew painfully and absolutely that the moment for truth had come . |
| 17 | They did not like it , argued against it — argued against the whole match — but she held firm . |
| 18 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 19 | And the traditional religious leaders did not like it . |
| 20 | On the same theme , the UK party made plain in a pre-European election statement why it did not like the Community . |
| 21 | Changing this number also meant changing the inscriptions on some of the camps ' memorial plaques ; some Jewish groups did not like the wording of the new inscriptions . |
| 22 | Indeed , some Tory Euro-sceptics like Teddy Taylor now see such a deal as the harbinger of a two-tier Europe in which Britain would be able to ‘ opt out ’ of policies it did not like . |
| 23 | His self-assurance comes out now in his attitude to school work : ‘ I did not like not being able to answer a question , particularly if another boy could ’ . |
| 24 | Besides , they said , he could n't punch , did not like to get hit and seemed to lack a sufficient amount of killer adrenalin . |
| 25 | The Treasury did not like this plan at all . |
| 26 | According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne . |
| 27 | Mr Brown did not like to show it either . |
| 28 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 29 | The only thing I did not like about her was the flat ballerina-style slippers she always wore , to reduce her height I think , because she was taller than you . |
| 30 | He did not like to be contradicted . |