Example sentences of "liked [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |
| 2 | There were several photographs of a woman in a state of total or semi-undress ( obscured where necessary , as this rag liked to refer to itself as a ‘ family newspaper ’ ) disporting herself around the club premises . |
| 3 | Tilda and Martha both sang absolutely true , and Willis , who was fond of music , and always optimistic about the future of others , liked to think of them as concert performers . |
| 4 | Karl-Heinz Tesselmann liked to think of himself as a wanderer . |
| 5 | Top sportsmen liked to think of themselves as ‘ personalities ’ . |
| 6 | Jay had a horror of moths flying into her face and hair ; she liked to think of herself as someone who cups her hands for moths and spiders and frees them . |
| 7 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |