Example sentences of "[adv] like be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 2 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 3 | I only contacted him because I 'd read the article and did n't much like being used . ’ |
| 4 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 5 | Horses certainly do n't instinctively like being patted : a pat is the closest gesture we can make to a kick . |
| 6 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 7 | ‘ People do n't always like being employers . |
| 8 | I guess what I would really like is if I could get my own club and have everyone come to where I was ! |
| 9 | What I 'd really like is a nice mantlepiece to hang over , somewhere nice and quiet . |
| 10 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 11 | ‘ What I 'd really like is a new set of knees for Paul McGrath , ’ said Atkinson — who of course ‘ made ’ the big Irishman at United before Fergie sold him . |
| 12 | What I would really like is a couple more steeplechasers . |
| 13 | Yes but the thing is what I would really like is get two there then waddle it in one there and then |
| 14 | The Porsche might be here , but initially what I 'd really like is a new car , and what I 'd like to do is get up at midnight on the first of August , and drive around in my brand new car in the dark . |
| 15 | The thing I 'd really like is a glossary of terms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They do n't really like being called a tourist in many places . |
| 18 | Men , perhaps , should be encouraged to realise that women want to speak up for themselves , they do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 19 | They do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 20 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I mean what I would ideally like is the society in which women could be both private and public people , and men too , so men would identify more with relationships in their families and so on and slightly less with work , and women less with the family and more with work , and I think that would make for much greater flexibility all round and I think children would benefit too . |