Example sentences of "[noun] like [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Dickie likes is no muss , no fuss . |
| 2 | Susanna likes being a solo artist . |
| 3 | What Dickens liked was the last thing he wished to have lying in , or rather on , his stomach . |
| 4 | The only teacher Endill liked was Mr Litmus , who taught them Science . |
| 5 | What the bulls like is Britain 's new political certainty — a rare commodity around the world at the moment with so many major powers facing elections or new leaders — and the belief that London shares are cheap by international standards . |
| 6 | All the drawings Cizek liked were amongst those I had done on my own and not under supervision ; which I was glad of . |
| 7 | The Ezbekiya did indeed have its moments , in the very early morning when there were few people about and the big falcons sailed over it with their unexpectedly musical cries and the Egyptian doves cooed softly in the palm trees , but on the whole what Owen liked was the Ezbekiya 's outside . |
| 8 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 9 | Both Madeline and the college 's 16+ coordinator , Christine Symington , conducted evaluations of this new-style subject assessment and the general impression they got from subject assessors and college staff like was favourable . |
| 10 | The ‘ Up Yours ’ mentality which people liked was nothing to do with politics or being right-wing . |
| 11 | What Roland liked was his knowledge of the movements of Ash 's mind , stalked through the twists and turns of his syntax , suddenly sharp and — clear in an unexpected epithet . |
| 12 | ‘ Marianne likes being Queen Bee in the hive . |
| 13 | This conflict between what the creators of the system like and what others like is common . |
| 14 | The soldiers liked being close to the Bright Palace , and they thought that Medoc would probably not be able to see them . |
| 15 | ‘ Madonna likes being in the eye of the storm but this time she was safely tucked away in New York . ’ |
| 16 | The films Gloria liked were about love and people singing to each other . |
| 17 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 18 | Consumers liked being able to lift a bottle to their lips , and were not so hung up about the problems of disposing of bottles . |