Example sentences of "like was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 2 | The only dish that we did not like was fish cooked a la Galego , which seemed to mean boiled and then doused with spicy olive oil . |
| 3 | The only thing I did n't like was the monotonous khaki wool . |
| 4 | One design feature I did like was incorporating the heater in the filter compartment . |
| 5 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 6 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 7 | One bit of the letter I did n't like was the comment about strengthening the 1979 Act which , more properly should be abolished altogether . |
| 8 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 9 | What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn . |
| 10 | The only thing I did n't like was being called ‘ Porky ’ . |
| 11 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 12 | Er , the only one I did n't like was erm but she looked quite so Claire would call . |
| 13 | The collection of information about clients ' backgrounds and their ‘ problems ’ , and about carers , would likewise permit greater confidence that like was being compared with like ( or point to interesting differences ) , and enable some analysis of the matching of responses to needs . |
| 14 | One I specially like was a clockwork bathing lady who jumps about when you turn the key in her back . |
| 15 | What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law . |
| 16 | Both Madeline and the college 's 16+ coordinator , Christine Symington , conducted evaluations of this new-style subject assessment and the general impression they got from subject assessors and college staff like was favourable . |
| 17 | You know I think that 's the one drawback of having a small workforce , the fact that if one sh picket did n't turn up , you know all of us on your th the force on the gate if you like was er a third of what it could 've been . |
| 18 | I tell you the one I like was Carry on er Beau Geste or something like that , Carry on |
| 19 | I wanted to get away from the boring white theme , but the only dress I really liked was one by David Fielden which had white fur and beading . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The only teacher Endill liked was Mr Litmus , who taught them Science . |
| 22 | What Roland liked was his knowledge of the movements of Ash 's mind , stalked through the twists and turns of his syntax , suddenly sharp and — clear in an unexpected epithet . |
| 23 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 24 | The ‘ Up Yours ’ mentality which people liked was nothing to do with politics or being right-wing . |
| 25 | What he really liked was the administration . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 28 | What Dickens liked was the last thing he wished to have lying in , or rather on , his stomach . |
| 29 | The Ezbekiya did indeed have its moments , in the very early morning when there were few people about and the big falcons sailed over it with their unexpectedly musical cries and the Egyptian doves cooed softly in the palm trees , but on the whole what Owen liked was the Ezbekiya 's outside . |
| 30 | What he liked was order , which armies embody in peacetime but abandon in the field . |