Example sentences of "[conj] she liked " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 2 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 3 | as though there had never been another world , and when a boy she knew , who lived in Doncaster , asked if he could come over and take her out , she refused him , although she liked him , because she knew that she could not bear to allow herself to emerge . |
| 4 | In fact she agreed cheerfully that she liked to see the whites of the eyes of any constable stupid enough to encounter her with tie undone or shirt unbuttoned . |
| 5 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 6 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 7 | And Kylie confessed later that she liked nothing better than to ‘ pretend ’ she was in a pop group like Abba , prancing around her bedroom holding a hairbrush as a microphone . |
| 8 | Nails felt touched , that she liked him . |
| 9 | His face was quite startlingly ugly , but it was also very kind , and she decided that she liked him . |
| 10 | Emily decided that she liked a small sapphire flanked by diamonds . |
| 11 | She resisted the thought that she liked the idea of him sitting at her kitchen table . |
| 12 | She went out with him faithfully for several months , and as time went on she found that she liked him both less and more . |
| 13 | But it was true that she liked to have good-looking young men around her , and the Earl of Essex was her favourite . |
| 14 | She was the kind of woman who convinced herself that she liked all the rich smells associated with men . |
| 15 | I opted for bright welcoming lights , while my friend said that she liked warm rooms and a good fire . |
| 16 | She was a reasonable woman , and he knew that she liked him . |
| 17 | Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day . |
| 18 | It was n't a feeling that she liked . |
| 19 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 20 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 21 | She should move away , or at least sit forward , but the horrifying part was that she liked it . |
| 22 | If someone called that she liked , she 'd say , I 've just come in . |
| 23 | And after her first day 's work , which proved her promise that she liked housework , Peggy plied her with what was left of the Christmas fare . |
| 24 | Yeah she said that she liked , she liked those big polo necked ones . |
| 25 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 26 | More worried now than she liked to admit , Piper extended her search for the Base Administrator to the refectory . |
| 27 | By the time she entered the building and hurried across to Occupational Health she was several minutes later than she liked to be in the mornings . |
| 28 | She expressed being a sensitive person who needed company ( she always had the radio on ) , she was n't thirsty and she liked the heating on but had to have windows open . |
| 29 | He was gentle and easy to be with and she liked what Jack called the mad Jewish grin . |
| 30 | This was her very first taste of only the best being good enough — and she liked it ! |