Example sentences of "liked be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The films Gloria liked were about love and people singing to each other . |
| 2 | Two chapters which I liked were R. Greef 's on ellipsometry and R.K. Wild 's on corrosion studies , and these were well directed to this need . |
| 3 | All the drawings Cizek liked were amongst those I had done on my own and not under supervision ; which I was glad of . |
| 4 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 5 | The ones I liked were polished walnut but they were eigh |
| 6 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 7 | He liked being with Steve and Paul because they were like his bit of rough . |
| 8 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 9 | Edith had the Gallic guts to speak the truth : she liked being seen as a sex object . |
| 10 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 11 | She had chosen the book because it was the kind of volume she liked being seen around with , thick , classic and Russian . |
| 12 | But she liked being taken care of , without being smothered . |
| 13 | She liked being helpful to people , as Brownies taught her to be , and she was always ready to Lend a Hand in the true spirit of the Brownie Guide Motto — and Jane , her Sixer , for one , knew that that was even more important than being alert and lively . |
| 14 | I liked being recognized in the pub afterwards , and made myself conspicuous in case anyone wanted my autograph . |
| 15 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 16 | She liked being on the go . |
| 17 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 18 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 19 | ‘ It was she who liked being in France . |
| 20 | I liked being small . |
| 21 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you liked being left on your own . ’ |
| 23 | I got on very well and I liked being there . |
| 24 | But he always liked being asked for his opinion : it made him feel important and he had never understood why people needed to go on assertiveness courses . |
| 25 | She never married ; but , by the time of her retirement from work , she was a great-aunt — although she was never called that — and she liked being one . |
| 26 | She wanted to ask him if he liked being alone with her , as he was now , on the quiet seashore on a nice day , but naturally she did not . |
| 27 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |
| 28 | Later , I asked Alec if he liked being perched so high . |
| 29 | I quite liked being on my own , most of the time . ’ |
| 30 | Usually she liked being alone in the house , but this evening was different and not just becuse Gran was ill upstairs . |