Example sentences of "[adv] like being " 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 | I just like being able to do things on impulse . ’ |
| 5 | He just likes being a child . ’ |
| 6 | Horses certainly do n't instinctively like being patted : a pat is the closest gesture we can make to a kick . |
| 7 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 8 | ‘ People do n't always like being employers . |
| 9 | ‘ You always like being in charge ? ’ she heard him ask . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They do n't really like being called a tourist in many places . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 16 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 17 | I quite liked being on my own , most of the time . ’ |
| 18 | I really quite liked being a cabby . |
| 19 | Her heart steadied and , deciding that she quite liked being teased by him , she smiled . |
| 20 | We do n't always write on them ; sometimes you find that if somebody tells you to write a poem about windows you end up writing a poem about aeroplanes or whatever , and I actually like being told to do something from the outside because you 'll discover almost immediately whether that 's really something you want to write about or not . |
| 21 | She had never liked being in the dark , especially being in unfamiliar places in the dark . |
| 22 | I 've never liked being forced into a decision . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm actually very dubious about this idea indeed because I , I do n't think that anybody actually likes being in a situation where they simply have to do what they 're told |