Example sentences of "[verb] like be " in BNC.

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1 Living and working with those people eating and drinking with them and the only taste I learnt to like was they do n't know . ’
2 ‘ Rhoda is n't going to like being a grandmother , ’ he said .
3 Italy are going to be defending their territory , they 've got all these teams in their country , and like , some of them ; England , Holland , German , they 're going to like be there on Italian sort of territory and they do n't want that , they 're going to be , there 's going to be trouble I think .
4 I 'm with you , for a start , and I happen to like being with you .
5 The growing emphasis on healthy as distinct from ‘ junk , food can upset parents when all their child seems to like is fish fingers and chips and there is complete refusal of fresh meat and vegetables .
6 It 's just that I — well , I do n't seem to like being touched . ’
7 However , one aspect I did like is the way you can select merge codes from menu choices rather than having to remember the correct syntax yourself .
8 One design feature I did like was incorporating the heater in the filter compartment .
9 What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn .
10 I must admit I did like being pregnant .
11 One person I do like is the late Angela Carter .
12 She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams .
13 For some reason , even though he was often sharp and rather short with her , however kind he was to his poor patients , she had begun to like being with him .
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