Example sentences of "she do not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 2 | She did not like what her life demanded of her , but she knew painfully and absolutely that the moment for truth had come . |
| 3 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 4 | I learned quickly that she did not like being ‘ told ’ . |
| 5 | She did not like to be reminded of dead things , even flies , by the stiff , still bits of leg . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ he said , grinning , another thing she did not like . |
| 7 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 8 | But she did not like the way his eye followed a pretty girl , nor the way theirs could sometimes follow him . |
| 9 | She did not like being a victim . |
| 10 | She did not like cooking . |
| 11 | Kenny 's taunting drove Elspeth to tears and Becky was made to sit with Mrs Friar whom she did not like . |
| 12 | Uncle John was in attendance but Aunt Janie sent a message to say she could not come , she did not like funerals and found them depressing . |
| 13 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 14 | Winnie , she did not like the sound of this : the pair , who , with the help of the wine and the need for more , felt fit to hint , to ( she saw Pol 's eyes , black and hard ) almost threaten . |
| 15 | It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life . |
| 16 | Perhaps as a child Joyce simply knew that she did not like birds and felt uneasy if one came near her . |
| 17 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 18 | But Robin Armstrong she did not like . |
| 19 | She understood that she did not like tunnels , though this was something she had previously been unaware of . |
| 20 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 21 | Her mother , although of the mentality that refuses such places because of the price of the uniform , was luckily not in a social or financial position where she could reasonably do so , and although she was often unreasonable enough , she did not like to appear to be so in the eyes of the whole neighbourhood , so she constrained her parsimony and her innate distrust in education into selecting the less distinguished of the schools available , on the grounds that the bus fare was cheaper . |
| 22 | Although she was pleased with what she had become , and saw some future in it , there was one aspect of it that she did not like . |
| 23 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
| 24 | She did not like to ask him the nature of his work , thinking that if he were something incommunicable , the effort of inventing a lie might crack him up completely . |
| 25 | She liked him , for all his heavy breathing ; she did not like misunderstanding . |
| 26 | She thought the name faintly familiar , and faintly Scandinavian , but she did not like to ask where it came from , in case she should have known . |
| 27 | She did not like being touched , not ever ! |
| 28 | She did not like Jasper . |
| 29 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 30 | She did not like walking along the dark road , but she was not getting into a car with five blokes ! |