Example sentences of "[adv] like [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 2 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 3 | I only contacted him because I 'd read the article and did n't much like being used . ’ |
| 4 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 5 | I just like being able to do things on impulse . ’ |
| 6 | He just likes being a child . ’ |
| 7 | Horses certainly do n't instinctively like being patted : a pat is the closest gesture we can make to a kick . |
| 8 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 9 | ‘ People do n't always like being employers . |
| 10 | One I specially like was a clockwork bathing lady who jumps about when you turn the key in her back . |
| 11 | ‘ You always like being in charge ? ’ she heard him ask . |
| 12 | But he always liked being asked for his opinion : it made him feel important and he had never understood why people needed to go on assertiveness courses . |
| 13 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 14 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 15 | Also liked was the convenient on-board chuck key retainer . |
| 16 | I guess what I would really like is if I could get my own club and have everyone come to where I was ! |
| 17 | What I 'd really like is a nice mantlepiece to hang over , somewhere nice and quiet . |
| 18 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 19 | ‘ What I 'd really like is a new set of knees for Paul McGrath , ’ said Atkinson — who of course ‘ made ’ the big Irishman at United before Fergie sold him . |
| 20 | What I would really like is a couple more steeplechasers . |
| 21 | Yes but the thing is what I would really like is get two there then waddle it in one there and then |
| 22 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 23 | The thing I 'd really like is a glossary of terms . |
| 24 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 25 | They do n't really like being called a tourist in many places . |
| 26 | Men , perhaps , should be encouraged to realise that women want to speak up for themselves , they do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 27 | They do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 28 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 29 | The other actor I really like is River Phoenix , ’ she added . |
| 30 | What they really like is talking about it , talking about others doing it , and feeling mighty relieved when their partner arrives home with a headache . |