Example sentences of "like [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yorkshire pudding , I had to use them up did n't I , cos I do n't like eggs laid about , you know , I do n't like them being there a lot |
| 2 | I do n't like them being reduced , that means you 're gon na get nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss do n't like me being late , ’ said Dot . |
| 4 | Did n't like she was more the career girl was n't she , I think ? |
| 5 | so we have to try and be really polite you see and she helps us like you are and , and see how your |
| 6 | Mhm is is that the same for everything else around the city that you do n't like you 're quite happy to just knock it down would you and take it away somewhere else ? |
| 7 | He did n't much like you being a property shark , I suppose ? ’ |
| 8 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 9 | I do n't like you being round dogs . |
| 10 | Well , we 've I would like we 're basically giving you all your cow requirement and all your oil requirement . |
| 11 | It seems that the only people who did n't like him were his own family . |
| 12 | I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery . |
| 13 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 14 | I do n't like her being there , and I 'm lonely on my own . |
| 15 | Just as they did not like her being sharp . |
| 16 | And I do n't like her being near the children . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In this back street , ’ he said , ‘ they were making coffins like they were going out of fashion . ’ |
| 18 | To admit to liking it was definitely an even bigger one . |
| 19 | The reason they do not like it is that they are so sensitive about it . |
| 20 | But that 's a shame when they do n't like it is n't it ? |
| 21 | I do n't like it being very stuffy . |
| 22 | But I do n't like it being stuffy , so this morning , I had all the windows open , cos it 's nice and sunny and , erm , I had the windows open . |
| 23 | job if there 's gon na be an exercise or a they like it to be a real-life practical situation , almost like a simulation of the job rather than something that 's er for example if you were to do a case study , pragmatists would like it be in an insurance-related case study and it could be related to their job very . |
| 24 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 25 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 26 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 27 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 28 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 29 | ‘ Like I was your little girl . |
| 30 | One elderly juror , whose house had burned down eight months before North appeared , said she tuned in a little to the hearings as she tried to sort everything out , but ‘ it was just like I was focussing on ‘ The Three Stooges ’ or something . ’ |