Example sentences of "[noun] like to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The local Post Offices like to be told in advance if we are going to patrol an area , ’ says officer Graham Perrett . |
| 2 | Authors like to be told such things . |
| 3 | ’ Yates felt that , ‘ Dustin did n't relate to the character because I do n't think Dustin likes to be thought of as nice and charming . |
| 4 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 5 | Maud liked to be associated with the right people and be seen in the right places . |
| 6 | Nigel liked to be loved and admired ; he believed he deserved that , but he resented her thinking that she — a thirty-one-year-old — could pull anyone of his calibre . |
| 7 | Skipper likes to be taken notice of , too , ye ken , and I do n't see why he should n't be . |
| 8 | The ciderheads took an instant liking to these fellow dropouts who also slept rough and were equally unsteady on their feet . |
| 9 | TARTAN TERROR TONY THORNTON 'S wife Carole took an instant liking to his new tartan kilt yesterday . |
| 10 | She 'd taken an instant liking to Arnie 's new girlfriend , who was patently far more suited to him than she 'd ever been . |
| 11 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 12 | The Shah like to all it " the crossroads of civilization " , situated as it is between Russia and the Persian Gulf , midway between Europe and the Far East . |
| 13 | THE bookmaking barons like to be called Alfie or Len ; the people who run the Jockey Club , racing 's official regulator , prefer glossier titles . |
| 14 | Stephen liked to be able to wrong-foot the people who worked for him and was a master at taking them off-guard . |
| 15 | ‘ Just that Copenhagen likes to be known as the city that never sleeps , ’ he repeated easily . |
| 16 | Section 1 : Rules like to be of relevance to all registrants |
| 17 | Section 2 : Rules like to be of relevance to registrants in private practice |
| 18 | ‘ Master Rickie Crowninshield likes to scuba , ’ McIllvanney said sourly , ‘ and his daddy 's paying for the gear , so gear they will have . |
| 19 | Although developments in engineering ceramics are producing ceramic composites with excellent properties , the major current interest is focused on mechanical properties liked to tissue responses . |
| 20 | The contents of Duncan Sandys ' White Paper were judiciously leaked during March ; a standard Whitehall ploy based on the well-founded assumption that neither the market nor the media like to be taken by surprise . |
| 21 | Do you like to be there because other people like to be there ? |
| 22 | Some people like to black out a few teeth . |
| 23 | People like to be seen there … |
| 24 | This was , this was , if you like a record of the eye approach , we went round , we felt the air and erm , er made judgement , in the same that people like to be making judgements |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 26 | People : Some people like to be told what to do , and would favour an organisation structure based on power culture or role culture . |
| 27 | People like to be in on a secret . ’ |
| 28 | The Vadinamians like to stage Recovery as if it was some kind of major ceremonial — with the required assembling of all the off-worlders , the exact timing and so on . |
| 29 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 30 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |