Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] like [be] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ Up Yours ’ mentality which people liked was nothing to do with politics or being right-wing .
2 What Dickie likes is no muss , no fuss .
3 What Dickens liked was the last thing he wished to have lying in , or rather on , his stomach .
4 The Ezbekiya did indeed have its moments , in the very early morning when there were few people about and the big falcons sailed over it with their unexpectedly musical cries and the Egyptian doves cooed softly in the palm trees , but on the whole what Owen liked was the Ezbekiya 's outside .
5 What Roland liked was his knowledge of the movements of Ash 's mind , stalked through the twists and turns of his syntax , suddenly sharp and — clear in an unexpected epithet .
6 This conflict between what the creators of the system like and what others like is common .
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