Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i like " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I shall go out with Nigel as often as I like , I shall go to his home whenever I like , and it 's nothing to do with you ! |
| 2 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll do business how I like , with whom I like , and when I like , and I do n't need your focking permission to do it , Nicholas Breakspear . |
| 4 | ‘ I can talk how I like , as well as you ! ‘ |
| 5 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 6 | That 's how I like them , worried . |
| 7 | This is how I like things — me pulling the strings , getting them to dance to my tune . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I said ‘ That 's how I like them ’ — and got a filthy look for my pains . ’ |
| 9 | She knows that 's not how I like it . ’ |
| 10 | Sorry , but that 's how I like you — warm , faceless , friendly and available — like a mother 's breast . |
| 11 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |
| 12 | I can dress how I like and do what I like . |
| 13 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 14 | It is in good condition and the grass is how I like it . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't agree cos I , that 's how I like it . |
| 16 | That 's how I like belly pork . |
| 17 | Of course , there are times when I like Caroline . |
| 18 | Oh were they not made what 's that flashing for ? that 's when I like them when they 're juicy made |
| 19 | In this respect it resembled another favourite hotel of mine , the Quirinale in Rome , where I like to stay in the room where Ronald Firbank died . |
| 20 | This is where I like it . |
| 21 | That 's why I like your end of it , OK , no one makes a million , but they keep producing . |
| 22 | ‘ England has an archaic style ; that 's why I like Spencer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I DO N'T KNow why I liKE BEINg a SKIN But I do . |
| 24 | The thing is that it 's obviously genuine sentiment and that 's why I like The Smiths . |
| 25 | That 's why I like the Status basses : they 're very portable , and the response is always very even . |
| 26 | That 's also why I like having long hair , it 's so versatile . |
| 27 | ‘ God knows why I like you , Nicholas Breakspear . ’ |
| 28 | That 's why I like the first-hand bits , ’ he explains . |
| 29 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 30 | WATCHING JOHN McEnroe rant at a line judge recently , I was reminded why I like drinking Armagnac . |