Example sentences of "[noun] do [not/n't] like " in BNC.

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1 Gloria seemed so pleased that Dot did n't like to say how constricting the coat felt round the neck .
2 The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies .
3 The Opposition do not like to draw attention to that , but the Government are very proud of having created so many new owner-occupiers .
4 Ari did not like Tammuz Malamute .
5 Taking the fatty bits off darling , mummy do n't like the fatty bits either
6 The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them .
7 However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed :
8 Alas , the Kremlin did not like it .
9 The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ .
10 Bernice did n't like the sound of this .
11 Bernice did n't like the sounds .
12 Bernice did n't like this woman .
13 The subversive implications of Lamarck 's thought — in particular the implication that a person 's character , destiny and deserts are not wholly determined by his breeding — aroused some disfavour : Napoleon did not like Lamarck .
14 Alejandro did n't like dead mares around ; it looked bad if potential buyers dropped in .
15 All at once Shiona did n't like the look in his eyes .
16 But Gascoigne sacked Jane in April — no reason given , though Jane suspects it had something to do with the fact his girlfriend did n't like her .
17 Madame Gautier did not like sunlight , as she had frequently informed her young visitor .
18 Shoppers do n't like it .
19 Lay clients do not like continuing medical examinations and continuing reports .
20 It also claims that its business has been growing faster than any of its competitors , basically because clients do n't like paying fees .
21 The reaction to the message we sent to the President via our embassy in Washington , which might take quite some time , for even the most cooperative of banks , and banks almost by definition are secretive and detest the very thought of cooperation , are going to be very reluctant to disclose any information about their important clients , because important clients do n't like that sort of thing .
22 Clients did n't like being told they had been manipulated , and in the circumstances would be likely to terminate relations with that dealer .
23 Dot did n't like watching that two-fingered hand as it grasped the knife to cut the dumplings .
24 Dot did n't like it when Mrs Parvis spoke in this way , as though they were dusty victims from under the rubble .
25 Dot did n't like the smell of old clothes nor of brick dust and escaping gas but she rarely wailed .
26 Dot did n't like the glass .
27 Well I do n't think they 'll like this one little bit will they , I mean the players are out there practising at the moment , they look very smart as well in an all blue tracksuit erm and erm obviously a club colour and they look very smart indeed , er but er the journalists do n't like it and I do n't think the players will like it very much either .
28 The Squigs do n't like daylight at all , and quickly become maddened by the sun .
29 Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him .
30 If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes .
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