Example sentences of "like be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but I want to know , Brenda , are you really concerned about the fact that you 'll see it , or the fact that these people that you do n't particularly like are going to be living near you . |
| 2 | But I I do n't like being treated like a child ! |
| 3 | Those guys do n't like being questioned by Europeans . |
| 4 | She would want another half later , but she did n't like being faced with a full pint all at once . |
| 5 | The Romanians are really a West European nation — in language , culture , history and so — on and they do n't like being dictated to by these Mongols , as they see them . |
| 6 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 7 | I said put that finger down and I might tell you , I said do n't point at me David I do n't like being pointed at and Maureen nearly fell over , Maureen stood there , she nearly fell over |
| 8 | Nor did she like being summoned to the cabin next door , but Penrose was a leading Wren . |
| 9 | he does n't l like being tied to the bench does he ? |
| 10 | ‘ He wo n't like being bested by friends of a black lady , ’ said Werewolf seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't like being laughed at , ’ she told him , her face still stiff with offended pride . |
| 12 | Does n't like being put on the spot and adopts conceptualising and abstract thinking to counter this . |
| 13 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 14 | Then , ‘ some clients are n't always as good as they might be : they do n't like being distracted from other parts of their businesses and , when solicitors need information and documents , there are delays in locating them ’ . |
| 15 | Well , I think the children do n't like being taken into care , for the most part . |
| 16 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 17 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |
| 18 | Like that after yo I know he did cos that had , listen if you were lying to me , I do n't wa I do n't like being lied to because I |
| 19 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 20 | I do n't like being accused of a crime I did n't commit , cos I admit to things I do . |
| 21 | People do not like being photographed on their way to or from work . |
| 22 | She had a very jolly time in Korea and she does not like being photographed by the Press . |
| 23 | You did n't like being woken in the middle of the night for ice cream , but you sat up and ate it in bed before it melted to please your father . |
| 24 | ‘ I just do n't like being used by rich politicians , ’ Ellen said angrily , though I silently noted she had no objections to taking their money . |
| 25 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 26 | She did n't like being reminded of her nice , safe , middle-class upbringing . |
| 27 | At the same time , socialists do not like being reminded of their own dismal record when in government a long time ago . |
| 28 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 29 | And I do n't like being shouted at . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't like being got at . |