Example sentences of "not [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 2 | MacArthur was respected but not widely liked . |
| 3 | But it was apparent that having gone he did not entirely like it . |
| 4 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 5 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 6 | We admire their brilliance of language and psychology , but we do not necessarily like them . |
| 7 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 8 | Chana Orloff , the gifted sculptor from Palestine , did not especially like Modigliani ; she was repelled by the permanent smell of drink on his breath . |
| 9 | Hollywood did not especially like it . |
| 10 | Since no child has no things they do not especially like , what parents really mean is that they ( the parents ) can not think of anything . |
| 11 | Erm , I do not personally like that because I like the discipline of writing things out again for reasons which I will explain in boring detail in a while . |
| 12 | For some reason they had not much liked the look of this pub , called the Fir Tree , and though he had slowed a bit as they came to it , they had not stopped . |
| 13 | While Tom played his flute or sang , she played her violin , not much liking the sounds she heard herself making , sometimes even glad there was so much background racket and an undiscerning audience . |
| 14 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 15 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 16 | Nikolaus Pevsner did not much like Bridehead 's rather whacky Tudor style , referring to it in his Buildings of England as ‘ excruciatingly awkward ’ . |
| 17 | On the other hand dieting , which is good , involves you eating foods you do not much like , staying at home , feeling miserable . |
| 18 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 19 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 20 | At a time when no one else may seem to approve of them , and they may not much like themselves , it is of the utmost importance that teenagers should feel wanted and loved by their parents . |
| 21 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry for making such a fuss , ’ Joan said apologetically , drying her eyes — before taking a few sips of the wine which she did not much like . |
| 23 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 24 | Liberty ( formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties ) does not much like Mrs Mills 's ideas . |
| 25 | It was she who spoke of using American law as a crowbar to open foreign markets , and who said that the administration , though it might not much like it , was nonetheless bound to apply the Super-301 trade-retaliation measure then on the statute book . |
| 26 | The extremists ' behaviour helps Mr Yeltsin because it convinces voters who do not much like him that they have to vote for the president in order to keep out people like Messrs Baburin and Isakov . |
| 27 | Tom did not much like the long train journey through Harrow and Northwood and Wembley down to Baker Street , and the changing and the waiting . |
| 28 | He did not like children ; he did not much like anything . |
| 29 | She did not much like his way of kissing , for it was hot and suffocating , and she was glad when he stopped , and released her , and reverted to his grip upon her knee . |
| 30 | So they greeted her with comforts and praise , and said they liked the colour , and Janice lent her a necklace ; Clara did not much like the necklace either , for it was made of large artificial pearls , and she secretly suspected the donor of malicious intent in offering such a loan , but she put it on just the same , and ignored her suspicions , and allowed herself to be comforted , because she wished to be comforted , and because it was too late to get out of going . |