Example sentences of "[pers pn] like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 2 | Oh , would n't I like to be a fly on the wall when you tell her the latest ! |
| 3 | ‘ What do I like about her ? |
| 4 | He is not a character I like at all because I think he was just an old rascal . |
| 5 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 6 | Tell you who I like at moment , that Wet , Wet , Wet ! |
| 7 | I can do what I like on these pages , and nobody on earth can prevent me . |
| 8 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 9 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 10 | But that is what I like about this film . |
| 11 | What I like about Mark is that he 's not afraid to be funny with the crowd . |
| 12 | Its television advertisements still portray a genuine Eskimo fisherman , who proudly declares : ‘ You know what I like about Eskimo Pie ? |
| 13 | All the elements are n't there , they 're a bit shaky , a bit jerky ; that 's what I like about them . |
| 14 | What I like about Making Out and South of the Border is how they celebrate aspects of femininity — a celebration of excess . |
| 15 | One more fing I like about me ole mucker Ingrams : 'e 'ates young people . |
| 16 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
| 17 | One touch I like about the Champ 25 is that the power LED flashes when the amp is on standby . |
| 18 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 19 | ‘ What I like about Boadicea , ’ she says , ‘ is that she was n't in conflict with men ; she was fighting for her people , men and women , against an outside aggressor . |
| 20 | Another thing which I like about Singer/Superba machines when knitting lace , is the wide variety in the thickness of yarns it is possible to use on them . |
| 21 | What I like about jazz guitar is that it 's so true . |
| 22 | ‘ What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites , ’ she says . |
| 23 | What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites |
| 24 | They 've got their lives before them , the young , that 's what I like about them . |
| 25 | And what I like about it — no . ’ |
| 26 | So do I , what I like about going home is you can get away |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Clare , what I like about you is your innocence . |
| 28 | Another thing I like about the book is the point that if you are , as a worker , do n't have the information , then you should say so , but add that you will find the person who does . ’ |
| 29 | The only thing I like about him is the feeling that there is something there that could be used for good if it could be got at . |
| 30 | That 's one of the things I like about her . |