Example sentences of "that [pron] like him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'm not certain that I like him . |
| 2 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 3 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 4 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 5 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 6 | Nails felt touched , that she liked him . |
| 7 | His face was quite startlingly ugly , but it was also very kind , and she decided that she liked him . |
| 8 | She went out with him faithfully for several months , and as time went on she found that she liked him both less and more . |
| 9 | She was a reasonable woman , and he knew that she liked him . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he was your friend — that you liked him ? ’ |
| 11 | No one had ever said that they liked him . |