Example sentences of "[not/n't] like [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried so hard not to like him as they shared a drink at the Crush Bar , especially after Daphne 's warning about his reputation . |
| 2 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 3 | You 're determined not to like me , to accept me . ’ |
| 4 | There is a minor mystery about this mode , for Tolkien might have been expected not to like it . |
| 5 | This is easeful music , and it is difficult not to like it . |
| 6 | The young seem disposed not to like it ; older people , among them Classical scholars , think better of it , feeling perhaps a greater reverence for the name and nature of Alfred Edward Housman . |
| 7 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 8 | Endill did not like them . |
| 9 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 10 | I 'm disturbed with what Phil says as he argues that we should trust staff but we would not like them knocking on doors . |
| 11 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 12 | When Willie Gallacher , the solitary Communist Mp , questioned the Colonial Under-Secretary , Rees-Williams , on 1 March about the riots , Rees-Williams retorted , ‘ I guarantee that when the facts come to light ’ then Gallacher ‘ will not like them ’ . |
| 13 | Christina did not like them to receive such a bad impression of Crystal Springs . |
| 14 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 15 | Er I 'm glad you raised the point about the distribution between the districts , and apart from your comment er I know Mr Davis is opposed to the idea , I have n't discerned a view either way from anyone else , whether they would like them or would not like them . |
| 16 | The Chinese did not like them then and , it seems , entertain no warmer feeling for them now . |
| 17 | I do not like them |
| 18 | I do not like them |
| 19 | We would not and do not like them ma manipulation and extortion of workers anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all . |
| 21 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 22 | I did not like him then and he did not like me . |
| 23 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 24 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 25 | Meredith might not like him but he was a box office draw and bearing in mind that unfortunate incident in Windsor … . |
| 26 | The haste , perhaps , and the diffidence both , were encouraged by his wife , who did not like him to talk of Trade , considering it to be vulgar , and yet she was pleased to note that this casual reference to wealth met with a satisfactory , if silent , response . |
| 27 | I could not like him , in fact my whole body trembled with disgust when he touched me , but I had to protect him . |
| 28 | Hywel is rich and they do not like him but he is one of them . |
| 29 | Tildy did not like him very much , but the kiss was important to her — and now there was nothing . |
| 30 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |