Example sentences of "but he did [adv] like " in BNC.

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1 Professionalism in writing was what Yeats resentfully found himself condemned to ; but he did n't like it , and he never pretended to .
2 He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him .
3 There were some joints in the depths of the freezer , but he did n't like to attack these .
4 ‘ He did it , ’ he said , ‘ but he did n't like it . '
5 But he did n't like being imprisoned any more than me and one night made off across the wire with a pal of his , disposing of a sentry along the way .
6 I told her that he came once but he did n't like the new Al Ain .
7 ‘ I mean , he was a bruiser all right , but he did n't like the idea of Blackbeard doin' you and me in . ’
8 She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery .
9 He loved Moscow , but he did n't like living there .
10 Damn , he sounded too shirty , but he did n't like the way she could get under his skin .
11 He knew May was not unhappy , but he did n't like to think he may have bored her .
12 But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last .
13 But he did n't like what he found — a student movement , influenced to some extent by the events in Europe , but calling for a return to the past in the shape of Juan Peron .
14 Oh , oh , her lie bounced off him , but he did n't like her arrogance one little bit , she could tell .
15 But he did n't like butchering so
16 He liked incense , but he did not like an excess of ceremonial ( ’ scarlet , lace etc' ) which he condemned as vulgar and intrusive .
17 In 1937 , Abu Khadra went to study science in Beirut and attended the American University — as David Damiani was to do four years later — but he did not like the course and returned to Jaffa , eventually settling for a degree in journalism at the American University in Cairo .
18 But he did not like leaving England , even in the winter , and , among the American tourists of Barbados , they soon felt homesick : Eliot was convinced , too , that the manager of the hotel in which they were staying was trying to exploit his presence there .
19 I should add that Professor Cizek said continue with oil paintings as well as water colour , but he did not like the flat way of painting as taught at Reading .
20 Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once .
21 With such small settlements of difference , Davide could cope ; but he did not like his work .
22 But he did not like the poor .
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