Example sentences of "[noun] like to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The local Post Offices like to be told in advance if we are going to patrol an area , ’ says officer Graham Perrett . |
| 2 | Authors like to be told such things . |
| 3 | ’ Yates felt that , ‘ Dustin did n't relate to the character because I do n't think Dustin likes to be thought of as nice and charming . |
| 4 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 5 | Maud liked to be associated with the right people and be seen in the right places . |
| 6 | Nigel liked to be loved and admired ; he believed he deserved that , but he resented her thinking that she — a thirty-one-year-old — could pull anyone of his calibre . |
| 7 | Skipper likes to be taken notice of , too , ye ken , and I do n't see why he should n't be . |
| 8 | THE bookmaking barons like to be called Alfie or Len ; the people who run the Jockey Club , racing 's official regulator , prefer glossier titles . |
| 9 | Stephen liked to be able to wrong-foot the people who worked for him and was a master at taking them off-guard . |
| 10 | ‘ Just that Copenhagen likes to be known as the city that never sleeps , ’ he repeated easily . |
| 11 | Section 1 : Rules like to be of relevance to all registrants |
| 12 | Section 2 : Rules like to be of relevance to registrants in private practice |
| 13 | The contents of Duncan Sandys ' White Paper were judiciously leaked during March ; a standard Whitehall ploy based on the well-founded assumption that neither the market nor the media like to be taken by surprise . |
| 14 | Do you like to be there because other people like to be there ? |
| 15 | People like to be seen there … |
| 16 | This was , this was , if you like a record of the eye approach , we went round , we felt the air and erm , er made judgement , in the same that people like to be making judgements |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 18 | People : Some people like to be told what to do , and would favour an organisation structure based on power culture or role culture . |
| 19 | People like to be in on a secret . ’ |
| 20 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 21 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 22 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 23 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |
| 24 | The patients liked to be drawn , she explains . |
| 25 | Gradually Adam would discover where and how each woman liked to be touched , and he would change his techniques to suit her , then move on to something that she was n't expecting or had never experienced . |
| 26 | Les likes to be a perfectionist and when he shows you around his houses he enjoys pointing out those finer details which he believes give his homes that little extra which means so much . |
| 27 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 28 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 29 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 30 | Friends like to be given something you 've taken time and trouble to make for them . ’ |