Example sentences of "[pers pn] liked [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked being recognized in the pub afterwards , and made myself conspicuous in case anyone wanted my autograph . |
| 2 | I liked being small . |
| 3 | I got on very well and I liked being there . |
| 4 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |
| 5 | That even I liked being there . |
| 6 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The ones I liked were polished walnut but they were eigh |
| 10 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 11 | Yeah , there 's no doubt about that , erm , well that was , that was the one that your stile that you liked was n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you liked being left on your own . ’ |
| 13 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 14 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 15 | Edith had the Gallic guts to speak the truth : she liked being seen as a sex object . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had chosen the book because it was the kind of volume she liked being seen around with , thick , classic and Russian . |
| 18 | But she liked being taken care of , without being smothered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She liked being on the go . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Usually she liked being alone in the house , but this evening was different and not just becuse Gran was ill upstairs . |
| 23 | She liked being with women she was fond of . |
| 24 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 25 | He liked being with Steve and Paul because they were like his bit of rough . |
| 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 | Later , I asked Alec if he liked being perched so high . |
| 28 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 29 | What he liked was order , which armies embody in peacetime but abandon in the field . |
| 30 | 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 . |