Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 2 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 3 | She would want another half later , but she did n't like being faced with a full pint all at once . |
| 4 | She did n't like being reminded of her nice , safe , middle-class upbringing . |
| 5 | You did n't like being woken in the middle of the night for ice cream , but you sat up and ate it in bed before it melted to please your father . |
| 6 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |