Example sentences of "like [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I 'm very pleased I think you 're going to like fractions are n't you . |
| 2 | And Luke 's liking Heather is a bonus , I suppose . |
| 3 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 4 | Those who did n't like gravy were indicated also , for there was often trouble where gravy was concerned . |
| 5 | Nikolaus Pevsner did not much like Bridehead 's rather whacky Tudor style , referring to it in his Buildings of England as ‘ excruciatingly awkward ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ What else would a sensualist like Lucenzo be involved in ? ’ he laughed . |
| 7 | That I myself did not like Syl was almost immaterial , since I deserved nothing better , but even with my penitential self-disgust it seemed unfair to me , and otiose , that my future husband should be so generally unpopular . |
| 8 | Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place ? |
| 9 | People who will not like Aladdin are doctrinaire anti-vulgarians or those who were traumatised as children at other pantos . |
| 10 | And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , liking clothes is not enough . |
| 12 | She did n't really like Preston being there at all . |
| 13 | Mike would like Mother being in there . |
| 14 | The only way I would like Lucozade is with a gin in it . |
| 15 | Yeah , I said yeah , I mean it is , I said , you come tomorrow if you like bedrooms are ready , but you see she 'll be staying at her mum 's some time |
| 16 | You like suffering be honest , you like suffering . |
| 17 | ‘ What my wife and I really like doing are the very simple things , like gardening and walking , ’ he adds . |
| 18 | when you like things is n't it ? |
| 19 | Erm I like Marion 's because of the the colours in it but I did n't I did n't really like Fiona 's because I did n't think it was vivid enough . |
| 20 | I bet anything you like gravity is really strong in there . ’ |
| 21 | Those who disliked dogs objected to the vast number running around which had been attracted by her , while people who liked dogs were concerned about the little wild bitch 's welfare . |
| 22 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 23 | Many who liked Major are beginning to feel neutral . |
| 24 | A merchant who likes riddles is murdered by his servant , who later hangs himself ; a small , fat , morose man who thinks he is a Hector with the ladies and , when he realises he is not , goes out and hangs himself . |
| 25 | He says one of the reasons he likes Australia is because the people there do n't analyse the fun out of everything , they just go ahead and act . |