Example sentences of "[not/n't] like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not like to be contradicted . |
| 2 | ( As I write , I hesitate — I would not like to be disrespectful — but continue , because the picture would not otherwise be true , and I think that she , above all people , would agree that a description should be true . ) |
| 3 | She did not like to be reminded of dead things , even flies , by the stiff , still bits of leg . |
| 4 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |
| 5 | Modigliani found her attentions annoying ; he enjoyed the sport of courting and did not like to be chased . |
| 6 | Now I would not like to be without it . |
| 7 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 8 | Child does not like to be touched or even looked at ; very ill humoured ; moans , whines and complains ; often a white tongue , thickly coated ; white sputum ; nausea and gagging . |
| 9 | ‘ It does not like to be seen to be auctioning things off , ’ says Alan Gray , an analyst with Glasgow stockbrokers Campbell Neill . |
| 10 | The literal translation of onyxectomy , however , is simply ‘ nail-cutting-out ’ and that is what vets are doing , even though they may not like to be reminded of the fact when they record their day 's work . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ I would not like to be a man in that city tonight . ’ |
| 12 | And we do not like to be associated with them . |
| 13 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 14 | Certainly , I would not like to be in Dino Zoff 's shoes at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | The Bioscope explained that ‘ the public do not like to be treated in a way that seems to be distant or high-handed ’ and so the manager ‘ should go among his people and talk to them personally ’ and he should ‘ always appear ready and willing to consider a suggestion however trifling it may be ’ . |
| 16 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 17 | Aruba plans to break away from the rest of the Netherlands ' West Indies , because it does not like to yoked to Curacao . |
| 18 | Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour , whose constituents do not like to be separated , may be termed bound collocations . |
| 19 | An ‘ ideator ’ is a prolific idea generator who , by definition , does not like to ‘ reduce ideas to practice ’ ( i.e. make a prototype ) , but would rather restrict the ideas to the realm of mental gymnastics . |
| 20 | I personally would not like to be held in a c in a prison . |
| 21 | Many experience a sense of guilt at taking out a hedge or destroying a copse of trees for purely economic reasons and farmers , no less than anyone else , do not like to be reminded of something which , in the abstract , they might find difficult to justify . |
| 22 | She did not like to be alone . |
| 23 | He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate . |
| 24 | She is not a natural leader and does not like to be in charge . |
| 25 | I have great difficulty in distinguishing between my property and anyone else 's , or at least I used to , but I do not like to be dismissed as stupid . |
| 26 | Claire does not like to be alone . |
| 27 | I do not like to be away for so long . ’ |
| 28 | It has not been easy — and he does not like to be crossed . ’ |
| 29 | Conservative Members do not like to be reminded of what is going wrong . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State and his Ministers do not like to be reminded that they have a welfare role , but I must stress that the back payment of entitlement at issue tonight occurs under the National Insurance Act 1946 , a Social Security Act and the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 which all state that DSS officers shall : ’ exercise their functions in such a manner as shall best promote the welfare of persons affected by the exercise of these functions . ’ |