Example sentences of "disliked [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we were both put out , for Dana , though certainly James Dean material , hated to be valued for his looks alone , while I resented the ease with which he attracted praise and disliked being thought of as an intellectual with nothing else to recommend me . |
| 2 | He much disliked being described as South African and he later held a British passport . |
| 3 | He took British citizenship , travelled for the rest of his life on a British passport , and disliked being described as a ‘ South African choreographer ’ . |
| 4 | Because of the extensive location work , Dustin , who disliked being away from his family for any length of time , insisted on Anne and Karina joining him at a house he had rented in Billings , Montana . |
| 5 | It is useful , I think , to point out again how much he disliked being touched . |
| 6 | Though she had never admitted it to anyone , she disliked being alone in the office since Arabella had fallen to her death from the fire escape : and the feeling was always worse in the evening . |