Example sentences of "you like be " in BNC.

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1 At breakfast my seven-year-old daughter enquires , quite seriously : ‘ Daddy , do you like being a doctor ? ’
2 Do n't you like being special ?
3 GUIL : Do you like being … an actor ?
4 ‘ Do n't you like being pursued ? ’
5 Do you like being in the bath with your father ?
6 Why do n't you like being called that ?
7 Do n't you like being on tape ?
8 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
9 The a pair you like are n't they ?
10 When you are satisfied that the area you like is , in fact , all that you hoped it would be , you can turn your attention to the actual property .
11 Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound .
12 ‘ Whenever I 'd played their records I 'd be dancing around me room , and to dance onstage to the music you like is just f—ing awesome .
13 What you can do here , if you like is put W there .
14 What you like is prawn biriani and apple crumble ; getting up late on Sunday and reading the papers in your dressing-gown ; looking at your insurance policies ; being taken for an academic ; picking food out from between your teeth with a sharpened matchstick . ’
15 Because just as I was saying , that Freud 's view was that , okay , there 's the id and that may be Hobbesian , but there 's also the ego , which if you like is , is more kind of Rousseauness it 's pro-social , and therefore I would say Freud is not a pessimistic , or an optimistic social thinker , but something in between .
16 Now th that , that if you like is , is the new strategy that he 's putting to the Communist Party and he 's saying look , you should recognize this is going on , there is a , there , there is a , a growing class basis to this and we must lead it because it is the way forward .
17 Well seriously Cass like the only thing like that I 've ever said about you like is that one day in the classroom right there was this picture of this naked woman on the right ?
18 Well obviously the , you know , the easiest way if you like is if they do come on courses , erm not everybody , of course , will go on courses .
19 You like being pushed around ? ’
20 Unless you like being marooned in out-of-the-way places with a half-empty water bottle , it is not a subject a hitch-hiker should get drawn into .
21 Then Gedanken said , ‘ Uncle , if you like being on your own a lot , why do you put up with me ?
22 You like being famous , Mr Adam Nicholson ?
23 If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun !
24 If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised .
25 Oh you like being with her do n't you ?
26 You know I think that 's the one drawback of having a small workforce , the fact that if one sh picket did n't turn up , you know all of us on your th the force on the gate if you like was er a third of what it could 've been .
27 And d had they shown you like were you sort of trained if anything did go wrong , you would have fixed it yourselves ?
28 But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote .
29 Yeah , there 's no doubt about that , erm , well that was , that was the one that your stile that you liked was n't it ?
30 ‘ I thought you liked being left on your own . ’
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