Example sentences of "like [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 2 | I do n't like it cos it 's got black on . |
| 3 | Emphasise benefits over features and use a sales vocabulary ( e.g. your production people will like it because it helps to overcome ‘ down time ’ through waiting for the material to set ) . |
| 4 | I know but looks good and I do n't like it because it looks good . |
| 5 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 6 | He did n't like it when it came . |
| 7 | If they have got something cooking , and if I found I did n't like it when it came , I 'd tell them to get stuffed . |
| 8 | Erm , and our John he did take but he does n't like it when it goes . |
| 9 | I did n't like it when it turned into a dance . |
| 10 | Have a bit more , no they they 've got them , cos they do n't like it when it 's done round the meat |
| 11 | just put some water in the sink and we 'll go and sit down , I 'm not bothered about washing I just do n't like it when it 's stuck to the plates |
| 12 | These often allow reordering the sequence of elements in a clause without a significant change of meaning ( cf. I like it and It pleases me ) . |
| 13 | Expressions such as I like it and It pleases me are ‘ equivalent ’ only in theory . |
| 14 | I like it when it gets dar , dark |
| 15 | I like it when it stops |
| 16 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 17 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 18 | She had looked just the way the boy did , and Jean-Paul liked it because it made him feel … |
| 19 | The parlourmaid likes it because it saves her … ’ |
| 20 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |