| basisword |
collocation |
significance |
relation |
examples sentences |
| like |
to like man |
19561 |
V:obj:N |
Of the two , I better liked the man .
Mr. Palmer is the kind of man I like .
You are exactly the sort of man I like .
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| like |
to like thing |
10130 |
V:obj:N |
You seem to like all the things I like .
People do not happen to like the same things .
You have no idea how I like all these things .
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| like |
to like look |
9611 |
V:obj:N |
Come on , now ; I like your looks .
In the first place , I like your look .
You will be welcome always because I like your looks .
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| like |
to like idea |
9152 |
V:obj:N |
Go on , go on ; I rather like the idea .
But the truth is , Jim does n't like the idea .
As I grew older I liked the idea still less .
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| like |
to like way |
6403 |
V:obj:N |
You want to eat in a way you like .
You have permission to use me in any way you like .
Take the children and return to the palace any way you like .
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| like |
to like people |
6192 |
V:obj:N |
We 're an awful family for not liking people .
You 'll meet some of the people you like .
Why , I love the locality ; and I like the people .
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| like |
to like child |
5838 |
V:obj:N |
Some children are very mean ; I do n't like some children a bit .
Would n't you like some children to play with ?
You can do as you like about sending your children to the public schools .
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| like |
to like dog |
5786 |
V:obj:N |
The more I see of dogs , the better I like dogs .
By my soul , but I 've a mind to pistol you like dogs .
And draw my legs after me like a lame Dog ?
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| like |
to like girl |
5454 |
V:obj:N |
Now I like men ; and I like girls .
You know , you 're the sort of girl I like .
But I was so lonely , with no home to go to like the other girls .
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| like |
to like woman |
5022 |
V:obj:N |
You 're just the sort of woman my father likes .
Do n't you suppose even dear old Clay likes a pretty woman ?
But I do n't like the woman at all .
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| like |
to like bird |
4514 |
V:obj:N |
The German loves birds , but he likes tidy birds .
And well is the brute repaid for liking the bird about him .
He meant to have them look just like the birds .
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| like |
to like dream |
4343 |
V:obj:N |
The reminiscences of these dreary and wretched months seem now like some hideous and guilty dream .
And the car is coming for me on Wednesday ; is n't it like a dream ?
The girl must marry , of course ; for years that has hung over me like a bad dream .
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| like |
to like others |
4284 |
V:obj:N |
The Supine also has low self esteem , but is driven to try to gain acceptance by liking and serving others .
Will this new movement die away like so many others ?
He liked to be intensely conscious , but liked others not to be .
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| like |
to like boy |
4235 |
V:obj:N |
You 're the kind of a boy I like .
The Indians near the house of Benny 's father must have liked the boy .
But I knew you 'd always liked boys , so I hoped for the best .
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| like |
to like cat |
4025 |
V:obj:N |
The more I saw of men , the more I liked cats .
Yet , in general , I like cats and dogs very much indeed .
Oh , I do so love a girl that does n't like cats .
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| like |
to like rest |
3705 |
V:obj:N |
But I think you 'll like all the rest .
This is Sunday , and I 'd like a little rest .
He has enjoyed scenery all over the world and likes rest now , and a game of cards .
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| like |
to like father |
3224 |
V:obj:N |
Besides , among a certain class , your father is not very much liked .
Your father liked to sit by a fire even on summer evenings .
My father liked to be with the white people , and we were up at the store a good deal .
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| like |
to like flash |
3181 |
V:obj:N |
At last he was quite still , and something went through him like a lightning flash .
Barbara was frankly flesh and blood ; he liked her flashes of temper and her pluck .
The reporter turned upon him like a flash , recognizing that call as the number of the coroner 's office .
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| like |
to like music |
2661 |
V:obj:N |
Me and the boys , we like your music .
But you must not think I do n't like good music .
Like any other teenager , I like fast and loud music .
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| like |
to like flower |
2528 |
V:obj:N |
By the way , would n't you like some flowers ?
We will play about your garden and flower beds -- ourselves like flowers on wings , without any cost to you .
That 's why I like William 's flowers so !
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| like |
to like beast |
2483 |
V:obj:N |
You need not stamp your foot , nor frown , nor glare upon me like a beast of prey .
Den he sets on me like a wild beast an ' does me up good and proper .
It kept the men good-humored , and we all liked the little beast .
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| like |
to like cloud |
2443 |
V:obj:N |
The fear of being drafted for the army hung over them all like a thunder cloud .
The thought of it presses upon me like a cloud .
Shame and remorse gathered over her like a cloud .
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| like |
to like angel |
2354 |
V:obj:N |
Do n't make me out to be any old angel I guess you 'd like to paint me .
You standing there like a big angel , with your innocent arms full of flowers , and I barking at you like a cur !
He liked the angel , and particularly the angel-mother in woman .
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| like |
to like star |
2338 |
V:obj:N |
And , if you can , I want you to think of me as like that star .
Great qualities cluster in him like stars in the deep sky .
But John likes the stars , surprisingly .
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| like |
to like fellow |
2319 |
V:obj:N |
But perhaps I was prejudiced , for I never liked the fellow .
Somehow I 've never liked the fellow from the start .
Much as I try not to , I ca n't stop liking that fellow .
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| like |
to like s |
2252 |
V:obj:N |
" I thought you liked the Bar S such a lot .
OGEE A moulding or arch formed of a curve or curves somewhat like the letter S , the curve of contra-flexure , part being concave and part convex .
Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune liked Dollhouse ' s " unsettling " tone and found the show to be " unexpectedly moving and complex " during the second half of the first season .
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| like |
to like ghost |
2215 |
V:obj:N |
You charged me with coming upon you like a ghost .
But statues and carvings ai n't like ghosts to add tone to an ancient lineage .
Dick would have liked the ghost to be near to hear it .
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| like |
to like kind |
2156 |
V:obj:N |
Meanwhile I shall have time for a long letter to you -- the kind you say you like to get .
The dry , hard landscape was the kind he liked .
It is new work , of the kind you like .
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| like |
to like animal |
2093 |
V:obj:N |
You 're surprised to see me bursting in on you like a wild animal .
Olive is a shy , gentle girl who likes animals .
That was lovely , but I liked the animals best .
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| like |
to like sound |
2062 |
V:obj:N |
But I really liked the sound of the bass .
You would n't like the sound of Betty 's howling .
If you do not like the sound of these proposals , sacrifice and take counsel of the gods .
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| like |
to like predecessor |
2027 |
V:obj:N |
Gameplay The game plays much like its shooter predecessors .
There were also worries that the team would remain a one game wonder and fold much like its predecessors , the Southern Spears .
It was his second and last recording on the Reprise label and like its predecessor , Of Rivers and Religion , it sold poorly .
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| like |
to like shadow |
2015 |
V:obj:N |
The overthrow of the Tammany ring and the memory of Tweed 's fate hung about them like the shadow of a great fear .
Her old cheerfulness began to depart , and a cloud to creep over her like the shadow of an eclipse .
He followed after me like a shadow .
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| like |
to like mother |
2004 |
V:obj:N |
You would not like your mother to be ridiculous , would you ?
My mother knew several families here , and liked getting back to English ways , occasionally .
Patty , how should you like a mother ?
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| like |
to like lightning |
1943 |
V:obj:N |
They liked the lightning and made a game out of it , each one telling what he had seen by the last flash .
A new idea started up in the Captain 's mind ; his frisky horse might not like lightning .
A great flash of interchange occurs , like an electric spark when two currents meet or like lightning out of the densely surcharged clouds .
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| like |
to like lion |
1913 |
V:obj:N |
Would you like a lion for being brave ?
My frockcoat leaps upon me like a lion and hangs on , dragging me down .
We never saw your cave , and , besides , we do n't like lions , anyhow .
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| like |
to like sort |
1856 |
V:obj:N |
Your friends , broadly speaking , must like the same sort of things as you .
At your age we would n't either of us like the sort of life we are leading .
You like the English sort of concert gown better ?
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| like |
to like look of it |
1834 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I do n't like the looks of it .
The inn was a beauty , and I liked the look of it .
Nobody liked the looks of it better than I did .
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| like |
to like fool |
1832 |
V:obj:N |
But -- you 're the kind of fool I like .
Seeing the poor woman was a fool , how else could you expect her to behave but like a fool ?
You shall have the goodness to be ashamed of them like a man , and not like a fool .
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| like |
to like wind |
1702 |
V:obj:N |
The noise of the camp muttered around me like a wind .
The door was open , and the November wind free to play through the place as it liked .
The thought of Patty rushed over him like the wind at dawn or the light of the sunrise .
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| like |
to like gentleman |
1687 |
V:obj:N |
It 's lonely here all by myself , and I like a young gentleman like you to talk to .
Paula sedately : 'It is a mistake to suppose that I ever particularly liked the gentleman mentioned .
They must have somebody , and they like a gentleman best .
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| like |
to like snake |
1679 |
V:obj:N |
Yes ; the stream winds and doubles upon itself like a snake .
But then I should n't like the snakes to bite you .
Below the waist of it likes snake and above likes a woman .
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| like |
to like person |
1670 |
V:obj:N |
Other , more loving type gestures of affectionate behavior include obvious signs of liking a person .
Once let me get to liking a person , and good night !
Mother says my grandfather was the only person Uncle Peter ever really liked .
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| like |
to like look of thing |
1645 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Hope the girls will like the looks of things .
My faith , I like not the look of things .
And for the last week Peter had not liked the looks of things .
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| like |
to like look of thing |
1645 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Hope the girls will like the looks of things .
My faith , I like not the look of things .
And for the last week Peter had not liked the looks of things .
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| like |
to like 'em |
1629 |
V:obj:N |
These are good people , and I like 'em .
Do n't think I shall ever get to like 'em .
You said you were going to like 'em , too .
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| like |
to like lady |
1526 |
V:obj:N |
Or , perhaps you will like Lady Ann best ?
Fortunately , I like my two old ladies ; things might be worse .
The elder ladies liked to watch the game or to stroll about the beautiful grounds .
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| like |
to like place |
1521 |
V:obj:N |
To tell the truth , I do n't like the place .
And then we can go on to Monte and any of those places you like .
Do n't you think Mr. Henderson would like a place here ?
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| like |
to like picture |
1518 |
V:obj:N |
After all , if the ladies liked bad pictures !
You are perfectly right in liking the picture very much .
Would you like a picture of Tommy trying to make a scholar of himself ?
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| like |
to like folk |
1456 |
V:obj:N |
For myself , I like folks of a more sensible turn .
You know they ai n't like the old folks was .
Why cannot men think as they like , and let other folks alone ?
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| like |
to like madman |
1391 |
V:obj:N |
The cab rocked from side to side , the horse was galloping , and this brute beating him like a madman .
" I could dance and be merry too Arsinoe , dance and make merry with you like a madman !
When the people had cleared the ice away almost entirely , a man ran out to the ice , and began hewing away at it like a madman .
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| like |
to like thought |
1386 |
V:obj:N |
Like suggests like to human thought by association of ideas ; wherefore like influences like , or produces analogous effects in practice .
Solomon Owl liked the thought of getting a coat for nothing .
Besides , I do n't like the thought of your roughing up those beautiful hands of yours .
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| like |
to like devil |
1382 |
V:obj:N |
She is a pretty little devil enough , but then I do n't like pretty little devils .
Me ve'y good boy but I no like foreign devil what is .
St Anthony probably liked these devils better than most others , and for old acquaintance sake showed them as much indulgence as was compatible with decorum .
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| like |
to like sun |
1367 |
V:obj:N |
Winter Jasmine likes full sun or partial shade and is hardy .
The Calea plant likes full sun , well drained soils , and medium irrigation .
He liked the sun , the sky , and the open air .
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| like |
to like rose |
1364 |
V:obj:N |
Do n't you like those roses I brought you , Jewel ?
Sam Johnson liked Rose very well and he was quite ready to be married .
You like roses , too , do n't you ?
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| like |
to like rest of us |
1308 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" She likes you as well as she likes the rest of us .
Joe knew that better than Samson , for Samson , like the rest of us , liked to stand well with himself , and kept self-opinion in blinkers .
Pretended to be angry at such an aspersion on Mary 's fair fame -- was in love with her himself like the rest of us .
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| like |
to like spirit |
1286 |
V:obj:N |
Well , you have chosen , and I like your spirit .
We like thy spirit , and later will receive thee into service near us .
But there , child , I like your spirit !
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| like |
to like thunder |
1264 |
V:obj:N |
What in thunder you girls find to like in those trashy novels is more than I can see !
" " You will like thunder !
" He does not like the thunder , " she explained .
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| like |
to like fish |
1226 |
V:obj:N |
They called to us , " Would you like some fish ?
We do n't like any fish as well as the whitefish right along .
What fish I 'd like to know is dry ?
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| like |
to like wolf |
1225 |
V:obj:N |
Are n't they like the wolves in your Russia , Monsieur ?
But they like wolves rushed on each other , and man bore down man .
The cowboy returns , and cowboys do not like wolves , so I will slink away .
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| like |
to like brother |
1215 |
V:obj:N |
My younger days sprang up beside me like brothers .
But ca n't we live here like brother and sister -- ?
You know I have n't any brother , and Phil seems just like a brother to me .
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| like |
to like rat |
1200 |
V:obj:N |
But I 've got you now like a rat in a trap .
She likes rats and mice far better than books .
If we do n't go and get it the rats and rooks come and I do n't like fighting rats .
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| like |
to like hell |
1199 |
V:obj:N |
You 're free to get drunk , or -- what in hell you like .
And I know I like Lucas , and I do n't know who the hell you like anymore .
Oh , pepper 'em like hell !
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| like |
to like friend |
1181 |
V:obj:N |
Do you mind if I talk to you now like a friend ?
Frankly speaking , I do not like your friend .
My old friend liked to let every creature live and enjoy existence .
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| like |
to like arrow |
1149 |
V:obj:N |
Lieverl� accompanied us , flying alongside of us like an arrow from the bow .
They sped on through shining streets that shot by them like arrows .
Now then , only let me get a chance at one of these chaps , and I 'll try how he likes arrow .
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| like |
to like tiger |
1144 |
V:obj:N |
We pounced upon it like so many famished tigers .
He came to and I helped him up and he rushed at me like a tiger .
" said I. The fellow gave a below of anger and sprang upon me like a tiger .
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| like |
to like sheep |
1140 |
V:obj:N |
How would you like to ride round the sheep with me tomorrow morning ?
For when I write I like things to come slow and orderly and in their turn , like sheep coming out of a paddock .
We herded together like so many sheep .
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| like |
to like anywhere |
1109 |
V:obj:N |
CHAPTER XX A REVELATION " ANYWHERE you like , and the bottom , not the sky , is the limit .
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| like |
to like leaf |
1107 |
V:obj:N |
So I did not question what wind drove him forth before it like a lost leaf .
The leaf of the osage orange will answer , but they like much better the leaf of the white mulberry .
I like a last year 's leaf before the wind , dried and dead .
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| like |
to like book |
1099 |
V:obj:N |
We will focus on writers and books we like .
Perhaps the little boy would like a book too .
You would not like the Book at all , I think .
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| like |
to like monkey |
1069 |
V:obj:N |
You look like a nice chap , and I like monkeys .
The sister did not like her brother 's monkey very much .
And our dog , Splash , would like a monkey and a parrot .
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| like |
to like schoolboy |
1054 |
V:obj:N |
Generally , I do n't like schoolboys .
'Well , I like the schoolboys , too -- " we are sorry to say !
" " But I like schoolboys !
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| like |
to like sea |
1050 |
V:obj:N |
Well , how do you think you will like the sea ?
If you do n't like the sea , try the Continent .
Would you like the sea for a grave , Simon ?
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| like |
to like bit |
1043 |
V:obj:N |
Those are the only bits I like in the history of the Jews .
And then I like my bit of gossip and my Court news .
You would like a bit of luncheon before you go -- I will order the tray .
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| like |
to like smell |
1043 |
V:obj:N |
So and see just get to like the smell .
You 've got to like the smell , Oh yeah .
Do n't you know dainty folks do n't like the smell of rubber ?
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| like |
to like ones |
1042 |
V:obj:N |
Well , I like the old ones better , myself .
Then I went and weeded out the ones I did n't like .
Flem Yes , but I like physical ones better .
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| like |
to like water |
1040 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , I should like some more water now , love .
Now cats do n't like the water , do they ?
They like pure , running water rich in oxygen .
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| like |
to like sound of it |
1028 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Lincoln : I do n't like the sound of it .
And Major Monkey himself appeared to like the sound of it .
And I really like the sound of it already !
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| like |
to like wave |
1017 |
V:obj:N |
The joy of the builder swept over him like a wave .
Now they rushed upon each other , and struggled together like waves in a tempest or roofs in a storm .
Made at him like a wave breaking on the strand !
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| like |
to like story |
1012 |
V:obj:N |
For I see you do not like my story .
And for the same reason , I like a story with a bad moral .
But I like the story , oh , so much !
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| like |
to like hero |
1001 |
V:obj:N |
If I liked the hero of the adventure -- and I have liked some of my rejected flirtees , poor fellows !
If I were a gentleman and like my heroes , she suspects she should fall in love with me .
Then all of a sudden came these words , " Betty , I liked your hero so much ; what happened ?
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| like |
to like sort of thing |
999 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Your friends , broadly speaking , must like the same sort of things as you .
But I do n't like that sort of thing .
You are not the man to like that sort of thing .
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| like |
to like sort of thing |
999 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Your friends , broadly speaking , must like the same sort of things as you .
But I do n't like that sort of thing .
You are not the man to like that sort of thing .
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| like |
to like bee |
994 |
V:obj:N |
Grampa liked bees and made lots of money off 'm honey .
Men , women , children , all ludicrously clotheless , swarmed aimlessly like bees in an overturned hive .
Master Ulsenius had before now lent them to Ann , and she like a bee from a flower would daily suck a drop of honey from their store .
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| like |
to like old times |
992 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , is n't it like old times ?
" Is n't it like the old times ?
Dan liked it , for it seemed like old times when he now and then had a chance to imitate the low men who surrounded him .
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| like |
to like serpent |
989 |
V:obj:N |
We had to do so as the water glided up after us like a huge serpent .
Thou hast been cherished by us like a serpent on our lap .
The bridged Thames , covered with craft of all sizes , wound beneath us like a ringed and spotted serpent .
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| like |
to like creature |
986 |
V:obj:N |
Oh , of course I like the dear creature !
There she stopped , and turned on me like a wild creature at bay .
Charlie likes the creatures , and they spoil him .
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| like |
to like flame |
964 |
V:obj:N |
Sheila 's contempt had fallen upon him like a flame .
Pity , tenderness , and sympathy shone in it like a flame .
The rocks were close , their radiant heat wrapped about him like a living flame .
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| like |
to like echo |
956 |
V:obj:N |
These two queer towns seem indeed like an echo from the past .
Then he liked the strange echoes .
" he repeated after me like an echo .
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| like |
to like baby |
947 |
V:obj:N |
The mothers of England are a much more important set of judges , and they like the babies .
Sister Samantha felt real badly when Ruth went , but she liked the baby ever so much .
Now will you be standing up and taking your medicine like a man , or getting it poured down the throat of you like a baby ?
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| like |
to like whirlwind |
937 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , I 'd like a whirlwind .
He fell out of the saddle to the ground ; and the black steed and the goblin rider passed by him like a whirlwind .
I meant to be gentle and forbearing , but strong passion rushed over me like a whirlwind .
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| like |
to like soldier |
937 |
V:obj:N |
And -- and I like live soldiers so much better !
No use , I say , she like dose soldiers best .
No , I do not like the soldiers .
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| like |
to like living |
932 |
V:obj:N |
And do you both continue to like living in Bath ?
That 's the kind of modern living I like !
Rogron liked good living and to be waited upon by pretty girls .
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| like |
to like voice |
920 |
V:obj:N |
And we know how much you like American voices .
What if the great teacher did not like my voice !
You tell them , Luis ; these people seem to like your voice .
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| like |
to like demon |
917 |
V:obj:N |
Go to the island as soon as ever you like and destroy the demons and bring peace to the land .
And the blacks are dancing round it like so many demons , " I answered .
She adored Fra Angelico 's flowers and light and angels , she liked the demons and enjoyed the hell .
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| like |
to like sister |
902 |
V:obj:N |
And I do wonder how you 'll like a sister ?
And after a pause : " I like your sister .
But I should like my sister to see her .
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| like |
to like look of him |
900 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I do n't like the looks of him .
She decided that she liked the look of him .
She had to admit to herself that she rather liked the look of him .
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| like |
to like statue |
892 |
V:obj:N |
Instead , she stands there as if waiting for him to speak -- stands there like a statue in black .
And the policemen were rushing forward , but with a wave of her wand the Fairy struck them all like so many statues in their places .
" " I nevertheless like your statues , Roderick , " Rowland rejoined , " better than your jokes .
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| like |
to like o |
889 |
V:obj:N |
She 'll like the effects o n't better now .
For my part , I do n't like the look o ' the man at all .
Ony o ' your banded debtors failed , or like to fail ?
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| like |
to like horse |
872 |
V:obj:N |
Still , you see , I like fast horses .
Under those circumstances , I just naturally learned to like horses .
But still , I like the horses here best .
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| like |
to like fire |
852 |
V:obj:N |
Jasper , mamma is cold , and would like a fire lighted .
Are you sure your mother would n't like a fire in her room , Dorothy ?
Oh , dear , I do n't like fire .
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| like |
to like bull |
844 |
V:obj:N |
Do not give yourself up to your passion , Lest it like a bull eat up your strength .
The winger jumped at the last minute and Kitchen slid underneath him like a runaway bull and hit the concrete wall full on .
When he saw Richards in the open he rushed for him like a young bull that feels the first swelling of his horns .
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| like |
to like fly |
826 |
V:obj:N |
Bless my heart alive , with that taking face of yours the men would be after you like flies round a honey-pot .
On the contrary , " like flies to like " in this , as in almost everything else .
They destroy them completely at a sudden and single blow , and send them falling about us like so many dead flies .
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| like |
to like work |
813 |
V:obj:N |
Now , these two men do n't like work .
You like the work and the work likes you .
My flag means I can learn to do the work I like .
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| like |
to like well |
801 |
V:obj:N |
" I always likes his cookin ' wonderful well .
A wonderful big piece , she cut , all full of sugary , buttery " wells " that Mary Jane liked so much .
I like all this well .
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| like |
to like day |
801 |
V:obj:N |
These days a lot of people would like to know .
The fact is every day seems just like every other day .
Name any day you like and I 'll take you .
|
| like |
to like tone |
799 |
V:obj:N |
And I do n't like the tone of Trimmer 's communication .
In general , the whole play has a Biblical tone that we hope the public will like .
At last I could sustain the tones he liked for more than three minutes .
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| like |
to like tree |
795 |
V:obj:N |
And choose the tree you like in the wood .
Others would like more trees but lack the necessary space .
Nevertheless , I liked their tall , sombre trees .
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| like |
to like thunderbolt |
794 |
V:obj:N |
This question fell upon me like a thunderbolt ; for I never had thought of looking upon these as a payment .
The words evidently fell upon them like a thunderbolt , and seemed to startle like an electric shock the whole audience .
It came me upon me like a thunderbolt ; and casting aside my trophy , thought only of the loss which I had sustained .
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| like |
to like thief |
778 |
V:obj:N |
Does Madame wish to leave us like a thief in the night , or like -- " " No , no , Batouch .
" " I know , Frank , you 're thinking about these thieves more than you like to tell me .
" I do n't like those thieves to get off without a chase , senhor .
|
| like |
to like wine |
773 |
V:obj:N |
Would you like some wine to drink --- or some water ?
It is also a minor , but well liked wine producing area .
Take wine , any sweet wine you like .
|
| like |
to like lamb |
772 |
V:obj:N |
You cannot like Lamb without liking literature in general .
Increase the cooking time if you like your lamb well done .
The girl for whom this sick boy wished a message might like the lamb and give the papoose money for it .
|
| like |
to like rain |
770 |
V:obj:N |
Indeed , we rather like rain , in pleasant company .
The sky darts through you like blue rain , And the grey rain drips on your flanks And loves you .
The mosquitoes do n't seem to like the rain either , they all seem to be at the back of the trench .
|
| like |
to like job |
767 |
V:obj:N |
My word , should n't I like the job !
All the same , I think I 'd like the job .
Why should n't I pay yours , when I should like the job ?
|
| like |
to like manner |
765 |
V:obj:N |
Tom did not like either the manner or appearance of the skipper .
Sir Bartholomew cannot possibly have liked Gorman 's manner .
We flew when and in what manner we liked .
|
| like |
to like flash of lightning |
756 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Like a flash of lightning it had but this instant occurred to her that more than anything she would like to see inside a theatrical manager 's office .
He saw what he described , and he saw it so plainly that his mind ran off into curious details that made his words strike sometimes like flashes of lightning .
His whole life -- all his happiness -- passed before him like a flash of lightning .
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| like |
to like flash of lightning |
756 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Like a flash of lightning it had but this instant occurred to her that more than anything she would like to see inside a theatrical manager 's office .
He saw what he described , and he saw it so plainly that his mind ran off into curious details that made his words strike sometimes like flashes of lightning .
His whole life -- all his happiness -- passed before him like a flash of lightning .
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| like |
to like moon |
756 |
V:obj:N |
Friday will be a full moon , I think , and I like a moon for the work .
Now one set below the horizon like a wan , white moon , and the other rose above it like the glowing star of love .
" " I like the Moon , if you must know .
|
| like |
to like apple |
753 |
V:obj:N |
The world to me tastes much more like an apple , and I have never liked apples .
And perhaps the boys would like an apple to eat .
You would n't like an apple , would you ?
|
| like |
to like meteor |
746 |
V:obj:N |
Stream 'd like a meteor to the troubled air .
Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream 'd like a meteor to the troubled air .
Loose his beard , and hoary hair Stream 'd like a meteor to the troubled air .
|
| like |
to like human being |
743 |
V:obj:N |
But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being .
They do not move or talk like human beings , but like lay figures into which certain specified sins have been poured .
And the longer he walked there , the better he liked human beings .
|
| like |
to like guy |
739 |
V:obj:N |
You really like the guy , do n't you ?
Martin : I thought you liked guys with guns .
If you like a guy , ask him out yourself .
|
| like |
to like dove |
723 |
V:obj:N |
But they went on , like unto timid doves in their pace , hastening to assist the Grecian heroes .
Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves .
I like the doves , but I do n't like their coon .
|
| like |
to like god |
713 |
V:obj:N |
And they do n't like our gods at all !
When I pray to God I like to light a little lamp or a candle , and not to have a noise around me .
He never stirred ; still leaned there against the pillar , still looked down on me like a marble god .
|
| like |
to like giant |
711 |
V:obj:N |
In spite of his annoyance , Hilary instinctively liked the giant .
We could just see the lofty sails of the Spaniard gliding after us like some ferocious giant eager for our destruction .
" I 've always liked giants best , " said Mary .
|
| like |
to like pig |
711 |
V:obj:N |
Excuse me , Klotchkov , but you do live like a pig !
He likes the 'long pig ' still , also .
Fed you just like little pigs .
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| like |
to like stranger |
705 |
V:obj:N |
In England you do not love society ; you love your home unbroken ; you do not like strangers .
Soon the introductions were over and the girls found themselves liking the gay young strangers immensely .
The boys found themselves much inclined to like this stranger .
|
| like |
to like kid |
701 |
V:obj:N |
The elephants may not like kids and kill you .
She wants to like the bigger kids , yet is n't quite ready to make the jump .
Then I sure do n't like that Metis kid .
|
| like |
to like play |
700 |
V:obj:N |
The famous author liked the play immensely and made no objection whatever to the sentimental interest .
Madame was sometimes invited by the King , because she liked plays .
Then he went on , " Queen Anne likes plays very much .
|
| like |
to like tea |
698 |
V:obj:N |
Would n't you like a cup o ' tea now ?
Shall I make you a drink would you like a tea or coffee ?
You are sure you would like tea better than beer ?
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| like |
to like for instance |
695 |
V:prep:N |
Why should she like Giovanni Saracinesca , for instance ?
Is n't it like Hume , for instance ?
I like live topics , real issues -- Montana politics , for instance .
|
| like |
to like song |
684 |
V:obj:N |
Only I prefer something simpler -- I like songs .
You do not tell me how you liked my two last songs .
These songs rock , and I like these songs a lot .
|
| like |
to like country |
678 |
V:obj:N |
But do you think you would like the country ?
If you 's country raised -- you like the country .
Town is very nice , but I like the country best .
|
| like |
to like rabbit |
669 |
V:obj:N |
Only I 've heard wimmin talk as has had 'em just like rabbits .
Oh , I do like rabbits in a stew ; I like everything in a stew .
The Angel liked the baby rabbits and squirrels .
|
| like |
to like fun |
667 |
V:obj:N |
We asked you because we like you , and because you like a little harmless fun .
Have all the fun you like , but do n't get hurt .
You like your fun as well as anyone ; Only you women have to put these airs on To impress men .
|
| like |
to like style |
660 |
V:obj:N |
The master of the castle liked a lavish style .
Look through magazines to find the kind of style you 'd like .
That 's a nice dress -- I like the style .
|
| like |
to like butterfly |
659 |
V:obj:N |
I should n't like the butterflies to think you greedy .
Malone sagged inside it like a rather large and sweaty butterfly rewrapped in a cocoon .
I never liked that butterfly as much as you did , you know .
|
| like |
to like coward |
657 |
V:obj:N |
Even the coward was pitied and might have been liked .
Examples regular : " The frame and huge foundation of the earth shak 'd like a coward .
No one , even a half-civilized savage , at heart likes a coward .
|
| like |
to like mist |
656 |
V:obj:N |
Ignorance and crime flee from before it like mist before the God of Light .
It is nearly dark , and the dew falls ; and the river mist I like not for them .
" V The story lay between us like a damp mist .
|
| like |
to like hound |
650 |
V:obj:N |
If we let them escape , he 'd have the police after us like hounds upon a trail .
Well , Lugley , I like the hounds better than I like you .
If you like a large , heavy , true Talbot-like Hound , See His Head be round and thick .
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| like |
to like eagle |
650 |
V:obj:N |
Umslopogaas saw , and swooped on him like an eagle to a dove .
When asked why an eagle , he stated " I 've always liked the eagle as a bird .
I thought to frighten them , but it is I who was frightened , for they swept past me like eagles of the air .
|
| like |
to like hour |
631 |
V:obj:N |
Certainly , I will see you if you come , and you may appoint any day or hour you like .
You have your meals at any hour you like , the cuisine is good , and all kinds of wine are on the list .
Could you give us but half an hour tonight , sahib ; we will come at any hour you like .
|
| like |
to like drink |
630 |
V:obj:N |
Carol , maybe your friends would like a drink .
But I 'd like a drink of water , if you aint too busy .
He would have liked a drink of water better .
|
| like |
to like dew |
627 |
V:obj:N |
For myself , I like dew better .
" " Merely that I did n't believe that horses liked such early dew .
In the dead o ' night jackals and hyaenas come sniffing of my body ; and the marauders who do n't like dews get into my compartment to keep warm .
|
| like |
to like taste |
625 |
V:obj:N |
My husband takes milk and the boys like sugar , but I like the taste of the tea .
Both taste and odor are very peculiar , and are seldom liked by foreigners till after long use .
But nobody else really liked the rich , unpasteurized taste .
|
| like |
to like flock |
612 |
V:obj:N |
' And sword in hand , the two marched into the heart of the crowd , who gave way before them like a flock of sheep .
I just like Flock of Seagulls .
Thence the British drove their enemy before them like a flock of goats , and reached the Bamban River , where the Sultan of Sulu resided with his family .
|
| like |
to like bear |
607 |
V:obj:N |
The Indians liked fat young bear better than venison .
At that everybody screeched , and Bill turned on me like a mad bear .
Look at the crowds , the band in full blast , the restless horses which like dragons no more than they like bears .
|
| like |
to like nightmare |
606 |
V:obj:N |
The scene whirled before her like a frightful nightmare .
The case of Mrs. Bonnington hung over me like a nightmare and the other possibility was even worse .
The sudden necessity for looking beautiful , and making herself pleasant and fascinating , comes over her like a nightmare .
|
| like |
to like smoke |
596 |
V:obj:N |
But I know you always go to sleep , and Adela does n't like tobacco smoke .
You saw to-day that I really liked the smoke ?
She liked the smoke and the noise , the movement , the sense of things doing .
|
| like |
to like present |
596 |
V:obj:N |
But I liked my presents , and I wanted more .
What present would you like me to bring you ?
She 'll like the present too , but she gets very lonely .
|
| like |
to like joke |
590 |
V:obj:N |
Now I have a very keen sense of humor ; but I do n't like a joke at my expense .
He is more cheerful than Star Silver and likes joke .
You scowl ; you do n't like a joke upon so serious a subject ?
|
| like |
to like walking |
590 |
V:obj:N |
She had stopped and slipped from the arm of Wilbur , and came step by step slowly toward him like one walking in her sleep .
Walking , and shaking their heads , with soft little peals of the bells , like creatures who had at last got quiet enough to like walking .
They who liked walking might look about for the fine views , and choose their resting-place either in the woods , the mountains , near the cascades or the brooks , or on the beautiful borders of the lake .
|
| like |
to like it of thing |
587 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Now I like it of all things .
" " I shall like it of all things .
" " I should like it of all things .
|
| like |
to like ant |
586 |
V:obj:N |
They like ants on these mountains , David thought -- insignificant , crawling ants .
They particularly like the acacia ant whose bite can numb a human arm .
" I asked if you like ants , " repeated Yellow-Wing .
|
| like |
to like hawk |
586 |
V:obj:N |
All his friends down on us like hawks , and the police and all that !
Hawk liked being viewed as a stupid redneck during the game , and kept her intelligence hidden in order to throw off her opponents .
Here Halfman learned that Evander liked hawks and loved horses , and knew their manage better than himself .
|
| like |
to like chap |
583 |
V:obj:N |
You 're the sort of chap I like ... .
And then , you see , I really like these chaps .
And I did run up against some chaps I liked jolly well .
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| like |
to like deer |
582 |
V:obj:N |
Dick immediately bounded after him like a deer , while the trappers kept silent guard over the savages .
" " I like the deer , " said Gypsy ; " only I feel so sorry for them .
* I 'm planning to have a herd of deer in the parkland around the house , and I 'd like some deer in the forest .
|
| like |
to like duck |
576 |
V:obj:N |
The other ducks liked better to swim about in the canals than to run up to sit under a burdock and gabble with her .
The other ducks liked better to swim about in the canals than to run up to sit down under a burdock and cackle with her .
The other ducks liked better to swim about in the canals than to run up to sit down under a burdock , and cackle with her .
|
| like |
to like phantom |
575 |
V:obj:N |
The desert men crowded about it like eager phantoms in the wind , half seen in the driving mist of sand .
And there he saw what seemed to be a troop of monstrous cats , who like huge phantoms marched across the open space in front of the temple .
As it was , Almos , without a word , motioned to the rest of his band , and led the way down the path in the direction of the stream , the four tramping after him like so many ragged phantoms .
|
| like |
to like sunshine |
571 |
V:obj:N |
Climate obviously is a major determinant of demand , attracting people to if you like the guaranteed sunshine .
It likes the sunshine , and dances round all day .
He liked the sunshine in the paintings and the way I put the colours down .
|
| like |
to like snow |
567 |
V:obj:N |
But -- well , I rather like the snow !
We always liked snow at Christmas time , and the sleigh-ride down to the church on Christmas eve .
But I 'd like a little snow once in a while , would n't you , Charlie ?
|
| like |
to like fiend |
555 |
V:obj:N |
They were riding after us like fiends and kicking up a dust like a wind storm .
" Her mistress stood by , and mocked at her like an incarnate fiend .
" He jerked her unresisting form to its feet , gazed at her like an insane fiend .
|
| like |
to like counterpart |
553 |
V:obj:N |
Yet it is of such dissimilar elements that the most lasting friendships are formed : we do not like counterparts of ourselves .
Gameplay The video game version of Double Dare played exactly like its television counterpart .
Commodore 64 version The Commodore 64 version plays much like its Amiga counterpart , except it features only singles matches .
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| like |
to like queen |
550 |
V:obj:N |
QUEEN No , I would not like to be a poet .
He liked you to be a great heiress , and everybody to wonder at you , and then to give your money away like a queen .
The poor like the Queen personally , and like to gaze at royal pageantry ; but they are not fanatically loyal .
|
| like |
to like dancing |
548 |
V:obj:N |
By the way , why do you not like dancing ?
She is ten and likes dancing , swimming and skating .
You know how much I like dancing ?
|
| like |
to like look of weather |
548 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I do n't like the looks of the weather .
Really , I do n't like the look of the weather at all !
And indeed I like not the look of the weather at all .
|
| like |
to like look of weather |
548 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I do n't like the looks of the weather .
Really , I do n't like the look of the weather at all !
And indeed I like not the look of the weather at all .
|
| like |
to like dat |
545 |
V:obj:N |
I not like dat , I not let you .
Dat liked to have killed Marse John an ' Mis ' Annie .
-- dat de likes o ' my baby kin say de likes o ' dat !
|
| like |
to like company |
540 |
V:obj:N |
We like your work , and we thought you liked the company .
Perhaps you 'd like company when you get out of prison ?
Blake liked company , but not much company liked Blake .
|
| like |
to like lord |
536 |
V:obj:N |
She also liked Lord Alfred , but the liking had been altogether of a different kind .
Lord Hardwicke the Queen likes very much , he seems so straightforward .
She probably did like Lord George as well as she liked any one .
|
| like |
to like glass |
529 |
V:obj:N |
Would you -- would you like a glass of wine ?
Stop a minute , would you like a glass of port ?
Instead of answering Would you like a glass of beer ?
|
| like |
to like stream |
529 |
V:obj:N |
We all strive after a wider field , and rush thither like the stream which at length loses itself in the ocean .
They like a clear running stream ; they visit the sweet running water for drinking and bathing .
I always liked stream fishing myself better than lake fishing .
|
| like |
to like chicken |
528 |
V:obj:N |
As we did not seem to have any food for the officers the farm people asked us if we would like some chickens .
About midnight we came to a farmhouse , and Blackie asked us how we would like a chicken .
They have a native fowl much like chicken I think you 'd like .
|
| like |
to like indian |
523 |
V:obj:N |
" If an Indian likes another Indian very much he will give him a big present .
I like that Indian very much .
India would appear to be the direction in which to look for colonists , but it is an unfortunate fact that the Arab does not like the Indian and the Indian does not like the Arab .
|
| like |
to like spider |
521 |
V:obj:N |
Since that time I have liked spiders better than men .
Nobody likes spiders ; it sounds too much like Superman ; and how could a teenager be a superhero ?
In fact , I shall rather like spiders after this : they 're so gentle and do n't bellow at all .
|
| like |
to like parrot |
518 |
V:obj:N |
Red-crowned Amazons nest in tree cavities like most other parrots .
It is not moral to like a parrot .
Everybody liked the parrot , because he always told things as they were , and they called him the bird that tells the truth .
|
| like |
to like society |
515 |
V:obj:N |
At such times I like my own society best .
James liked neither the society of women nor the notes of a piano .
Although a democrat myself , I like not the late democratic societies .
|
| like |
to like doe |
513 |
V:obj:N |
He oft would whale Jack with the cat , And say , " My buck , doe you like that ?
All I know is that , as I was going along the road this morning , about a mile out of Anglebury , I heard something trotting after me like a doe , and looking round there she was , white as death itself .
' Anne turned away , and instead of informing her mother that she had been running like a doe to escape the interesting heir-presumptive alluded to , merely said 'Mother , I do n't like this at all .
|
| like |
to like lily |
513 |
V:obj:N |
Anyhow , it was lucky that he liked water lilies .
He was like a whirlwind wooing , and she like a lily blown by the gale .
" I always like those lilies .
|
| like |
to like prince |
510 |
V:obj:N |
Why , he must have the best lawyers at the Bar , and fee them like princes .
She says she does n't like the Prince but likes Roderick as a friend .
Corbett had always liked Prince Edward ; he had a roguish air , coupled with an almost childlike innocence .
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| like |
to like torrent |
509 |
V:obj:N |
Then the thunder pealed , the rain burst over us like a torrent , and I saw no more .
Henry could feel the relief flooding through him like a torrent .
The evil of overindulgence has , alas , swept in upon us like a torrent , overwhelming as a flood all classes .
|
| like |
to like maniac |
508 |
V:obj:N |
The old woman let fall the dish and the young one rushed at me like a maniac : " 'You deaf hog , you !
The two women in the car screamed at him like maniacs , and before he 'd got comfortably set down the conductor had opened the front door and started for him .
They had scarcely crossed the threshold when Doctor Glasson staggered by them like a maniac , with Tryphosa hanging on to his clerical skirts and Tryphena in full cry behind .
|
| like |
to like lover |
508 |
V:obj:N |
But I should like a lover who would laugh and be gay .
And no woman likes even a lost lover to think scornfully of her .
The Widow Gostillon liked not her daughter 's lover .
|
| like |
to like king |
502 |
V:obj:N |
Whatever acts and things are liked by the king are liked by his subjects .
And I should not like a little King of mine to have anything to do with his books .
For instance , to begin at the beginning , the phrase Looks it not like the king ?
|
| like |
to like piece |
499 |
V:obj:N |
Usually the public likes best the very piece the composer himself cares least about .
Do you think an old Roman would have liked such a piece of filigree work ?
Dr. Prendergast likes the grand old pieces , and hardly cares for modern ones .
|
| like |
to like christian |
496 |
V:obj:N |
Perhaps you do n't like Christians , though ?
The early Christians liked to think of the resemblance between Orpheus and Christ .
Thou believest indeed like a good Christian .
|
| like |
to like river |
492 |
V:obj:N |
Continue to say : I feel new strength , vigour and energy entering my being , flowing through me like rivers of light .
The Nevski Prospect , that broad and mighty thoroughfare , stretched before us like a great silver river .
It like all other rivers on Long Island is totally generated from groundwater springs ( e. g. , no lakes ) .
|
| like |
to like face |
492 |
V:obj:N |
But I like a face to have a name .
How would you like your face to look as mine does ?
Nevertheless , I like your face , and I will trust you .
|
| like |
to like coffee |
492 |
V:obj:N |
Do you really like coffee or are you pretending ?
We should like the coffee as soon as possible .
We like coffee better than tea for taste , but tea " for a constancy .
|
| like |
to like fox |
491 |
V:obj:N |
He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven , And fire us hence like foxes .
You do n't like foxes , either , do you , Splash ?
To earth himself like fox , in his dismay , Sir Pinnabel has every hope foregone .
|
| like |
to like stuff |
485 |
V:obj:N |
Joe had little use for the stuff I liked .
Some people seem to like my stuff , rather .
The stuff I liked was really the jazz oriented stuff .
|
| like |
to like hen |
483 |
V:obj:N |
You like hens ?
" " I threw down the barred Plymouth Rocks on account of color ; I like white hens best .
The thing is , ever since my fight with Nick , shes been clucking around me like the mother hen .
|
| like |
to like of course |
483 |
V:prep:N |
Breakfast in your room at any time you like of course .
Ruth , you liked the part about Dickens , of course .
If the soup is liked thin , of course more water can be added .
|
| like |
to like dress |
478 |
V:obj:N |
And would n't you like such a dress as mine ?
Yet I like comfortable dresses , too : why not ?
As I suspected , she does n't like my dresses .
|
| like |
to like wife |
477 |
V:obj:N |
You can do as you please about liking me , but I want you to like my wife .
Ruth and Alice liked the farmer 's wife at once .
Now would you like my wife to call upon you ?
|
| like |
to like elephant |
475 |
V:obj:N |
You dance like a sylph , I like an elephant .
" I like the elephants best , and I 'd give anything to go on a hunt like that !
I did n't like her clockwork elephants .
|
| like |
to like swallow |
474 |
V:obj:N |
" It 's useless for me to say I 'd like Swallow or Tank or Jezebel , because , if I name one in particular , there 's always some reason why it would be better not to ride that one that day .
|
| like |
to like tale |
474 |
V:obj:N |
Such tales would not be liked at the Warren .
My hostess asked me how I liked this tale ?
Such an account was listened to like a tale of idle credulity .
|
| like |
to like life |
473 |
V:obj:N |
But perhaps you do n't like a country life .
But I 've been thinking perhaps I should like the life .
After a while I grew to like the free life of the bush .
|
| like |
to like toy |
471 |
V:obj:N |
Do you not like these toys , eh ?
Usually the parent on the far side held an object or toy that the baby liked , or found interesting .
Say , I like toys , Christmas toys .
|
| like |
to like lad |
471 |
V:obj:N |
The man and the woman liked the big , honest lad .
And yet , curse it , I like the lad .
My wife had been very fond of him , and I liked the lad .
|
| like |
to like singing |
470 |
V:obj:N |
Harry did not like his wife 's singing .
Her singing was liked by many including Mahatma Gandhi .
In childhood she liked a singing and dancing .
|
| like |
to like pendulum |
470 |
V:obj:N |
The endless screw is attached to some revolving part of the engine , whereby a rotatory motion is imparted to it ; and the wheels into which the screws work hang down from it like a pendulum , and are kept stationary by the action of gravity .
" She turned on 'Dolph , scolding , commanding him to be quiet ; and 'Dolph subsided on his haunches and watched her , his stump tail jerking to and fro beneath him like an unweighted pendulum .
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| like |
to like cup of tea |
468 |
V:obj:N |
Mark , would you like a cup of tea ?
But would n't you like a cup of tea ?
But I should dearly like a cup of tea .
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| like |
to like prospect |
464 |
V:obj:N |
The more I thought the matter over the less I liked the prospect .
Next , because when you first came here you seemed to like the prospect .
On the whole , she rather liked the prospect of looking out upon the roads .
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| like |
to like shot |
459 |
V:obj:N |
How you like feel de shot , eh ?
Forward Bob Love rarely saw a shot he did n't like at 21.8 points per game .
At our speed it would n't have to be as big as your fist to go through us like a shot .
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| like |
to like notion |
457 |
V:obj:N |
But I do n't like the notion , I confess .
But I do n't like the notion of the first day .
You liked the notion , and we made a fair bargain .
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| like |
to like pearl |
456 |
V:obj:N |
Harley says that while he likes Jodie 'in small doses ' he likes Pearl a lot more .
Margaret liked that pink pearl ; sweet little prim Margaret , who has given me most of the little pleasure I have had these last three years .
" Three days we must have , just three , with this secret hidden between us like a pearl in an oyster-shell !
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| like |
to like mountain |
455 |
V:obj:N |
The air pressed on me like a fiery mountain .
And you liked the mountains better than the town .
Dick liked mountains , and the peak looked beautiful against the red and yellow bars of the western horizon .
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| like |
to like stone |
454 |
V:obj:N |
Uncle Jake likes the stones turned back and then replaced 'as you finds 'em .
It 's so very nice that you like stones .
Gold and platinum are as precious on Lodore as they are here and he also likes pretty stones .
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| like |
to like sport |
448 |
V:obj:N |
You could get as worked up as you liked about sports .
We liked the same sports , and enjoyed the same pleasures .
Betty likes sports , and is also a cheerleader .
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| like |
to like er |
445 |
V:obj:N |
So if you 'd like er we do n't know how many men .
Er I think my wife would like to take advantage of er buying back the service of the earliest before nineteen seventy three .
Would we like a teach , would we like er a teaching arranging , for this meeting ?
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| like |
to like home |
443 |
V:obj:N |
But I like my home in the woods much better .
Think you will like a home in the wild , wild woods , Julia ?
You have liked my home , Master Johannes ?
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| like |
to like gentlemen |
443 |
V:obj:N |
These young gentlemen liked to be thought " sad dogs .
She liked gentlemen to be gentlemen in every sense of the word .
They searched rigidly , but promptly , carefully and like gentlemen .
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| like |
to like master |
441 |
V:obj:N |
As we drove along , I quite liked my master .
But I do n't like the master to talk like that .
The Master liked to talk of poetry , history , and the upkeep of courtesy .
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| like |
to like food |
441 |
V:obj:N |
The way to learn to like such foods is to keep trying .
We will never have a national music until we have national dishes and national drinks and until we like good food .
Tolerance As well as you liking the food , the food has to like you .
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| like |
to like eel |
436 |
V:obj:N |
Not I. He slipped through it like an eel .
Our fellows did n't tumble to it until after the game was under way and the enemy were wriggling away from us like so many eels .
" I do n't like eels , " she said .
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| like |
to like talk |
436 |
V:obj:N |
And I like a quiet talk with my new son .
Besides , I like a talk with interesting people .
J. and I have never been given to inhospitality , and we both liked the talk .
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| like |
to like rat in trap |
433 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I 've got you now like a rat in a trap .
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| like |
to like rat in trap |
433 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But I 've got you now like a rat in a trap .
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| like |
to like playing |
423 |
V:obj:N |
We 'll see how you like my playing .
He came out to me and asked me if I liked his playing .
And for some reason he liked our playing , John and mine .
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| like |
to like drop |
422 |
V:obj:N |
But I should have liked a drop for my breakfast .
Sit you down -- would you like a drop of good whisky , now ?
Would n't you like a little drop of something to pick you up ?
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| like |
to like jewel |
421 |
V:obj:N |
Lord Earle looked on in proud delight while his beautiful daughters chose the jewels they liked best .
The Pearl certainly likes jewels .
She liked jewels .
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| like |
to like ter |
421 |
V:obj:N |
He fell on it and liked ter bled to death .
All the same , I 'd like ter hev seen his face when that box was opened !
Where 'd we get one here , I 'd like ter know ?
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| like |
to like thief in night |
419 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Does Madame wish to leave us like a thief in the night , or like -- " " No , no , Batouch .
An ' no creepin ' back afther it all like a thief in the night ?
You may therefore , go to work and do what you can to rescue , or join in with tyrants to oppress them and yourselves , until the Lord shall come upon you all like a thief in the night .
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| like |
to like thief in night |
419 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Does Madame wish to leave us like a thief in the night , or like -- " " No , no , Batouch .
An ' no creepin ' back afther it all like a thief in the night ?
You may therefore , go to work and do what you can to rescue , or join in with tyrants to oppress them and yourselves , until the Lord shall come upon you all like a thief in the night .
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| like |
to like gold |
418 |
V:obj:N |
They seem to like gold more than most things .
Besides , I do n't like " Fairy gold that cannot stay .
This was a season of trial , and she came forth from it like refined gold .
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| like |
to like house |
415 |
V:obj:N |
Say , too , how you continue to like your new house .
How I should like such a house for myself !
Besides , I do n't like an inside house for summer .
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| like |
to like son |
412 |
V:obj:N |
This was the kind of son he would have liked to have himself .
Is she such a woman as a plain country gentleman would like his only son to marry -- ay or no ?
If that were your picture , would you like your son to keep it for younger and better women to see ?
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| like |
to like look of man |
411 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But no greaser likes the looks of a white man with a gun .
They both at first rather liked the looks of the man .
Yet I liked not the look of the Danish men , after the honest faces of our own crew .
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| like |
to like look of man |
411 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But no greaser likes the looks of a white man with a gun .
They both at first rather liked the looks of the man .
Yet I liked not the look of the Danish men , after the honest faces of our own crew .
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| like |
to like look of them |
408 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Do n't like the looks of them after dark .
You do n't like the look of them ?
Because I liked the look of them .
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| like |
to like rock |
404 |
V:obj:N |
She stood before me like a rock , listening until I had finished speaking .
It was all rocky and the oak well likes the rocks do you see , and they were doing better .
" " Irene likes the rocks , " said Penelope .
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| like |
to like kitten |
404 |
V:obj:N |
The dogs were gambolling around her like so many kittens .
Maybe he would get to like the kitten as much as he did the little dog .
Meow The personality of a kitten AI in Clara which acts exactly like a real kitten would .
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| like |
to like flood |
402 |
V:obj:N |
The remnant of the royal blood Comes pouring on me like a flood .
The experiences of the day rushed over her like a flood .
Terror swept over me like a springtime flood .
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| like |
to like diamond |
402 |
V:obj:N |
But he was not sure whether the English liked diamonds and rubies on a man .
Do n't tell me anything , Miss Bruce , except that you would like your diamonds back again .
When you can afford it , you shall give me any ring you like -- pearl or diamond ; but I like diamonds best .
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| like |
to like knife |
399 |
V:obj:N |
Why , every word you said to me to-night about being a thief cut into me like a knife .
Rascal as I am , those few simple words your sister spoke to the judge went through and through me like a knife .
Something flashed out from him like a knife out of a sheath .
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| like |
to like look of her |
399 |
V:obj+prep:N |
No , I rather like the look of her .
Yes , the camp liked the look of her , and so it set out to give Scipio a hearty welcome .
But I liked the look of her .
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| like |
to like light |
397 |
V:obj:N |
The butterflies , on the other hand , liked the red light only to sleep in .
But I should like a little further light on destiny , so to speak .
Small children may like a night light , while older ones will want a light to read by .
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| like |
to like sentinel |
396 |
V:obj:N |
I even meditated escape , and unclosed my casement with that design , but the sunlight , the bird songs , and the zephyrs rushed into my window and staggered me like so many sentinels .
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| like |
to like slave |
395 |
V:obj:N |
Who would let a tutor knave Screw him like a Guinea slave !
Some times there were certain slaves that certain children liked , and they were granted those slaves .
He spoke of him as being a " blustering man , who never liked the slaves to make anything for themselves .
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| like |
to like saying |
392 |
V:obj:N |
When I said that the absent were ghosts , I do n't think you quite liked the saying .
" I always like those old sayings .
In the same way you may note that the French popular airs are those most calculated to strike the imagination , the best-modulated melodies are taken over by the people ; clearness of thought , the intellectual simplicity of an idea attracts them ; they like the incisive sayings that hold the greatest number of ideas .
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| like |
to like bubble |
392 |
V:obj:N |
he liked bubbles .
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| like |
to like fury |
391 |
V:obj:N |
The kittens fell upon it like furies , growling at each other , as I had seen the stranger lynxes growling once before over the caribou .
" Give it me , " she gasped , snatching at me like a fury .
The plan is , to give half-a-dozen bright puffs , and then keep it in your fist ; and when you see an Italian head , volcano him like fury .
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| like |
to like cousin |
389 |
V:obj:N |
In fact , I did n't like your cousin .
Oh , I wonder if I shall like those little cousins ?
And yet he had liked the cousin , who indeed had many gifts to win liking both from men and women .
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| like |
to like pie |
388 |
V:obj:N |
You do n't like apple pie do you ?
And Mr. Hooper do n't like burnt pies .
And here 's a pie for your trouble , Hank , and a few of these cookies you said you like .
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| like |
to like time |
386 |
V:obj:N |
Yeah , any time , any time you like .
Just tell me to shut up any time you like .
You can come to my parties any time you like .
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| like |
to like knight |
382 |
V:obj:N |
For the blue and silver maid liked the knight .
All the young knights of the Round Table liked to ride with her and protect her .
" Pogner was well pleased , for he liked the knight .
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| like |
to like hare |
382 |
V:obj:N |
My horse sank deeply in the loose earth , while the lighter mustang bounded over it like a hare .
In an instant he turned and was running past them like a hare .
" The King liked jugged hare very much and was glad to get such a fine present .
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| like |
to like owl |
380 |
V:obj:N |
Ever think you 'd like a white owl ?
Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful .
I do not like the owl , he is so ugly .
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| like |
to like wave of sea |
379 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Their bodies heaved under me like the waves of the sea , and imparted an involuntary forward movement to me .
It was the truth breaking upon him , truth surging over him like the waves of a sea , breaking down the barriers he had set up , inundating him with a force that was mightier than his own will .
THE GREAT CULMINATION 293 THE KEEPERS OF THE TRAIL CHAPTER I HENRY IN HIS KINGDOM A light wind blew over the great , primeval wilderness of Kentucky , the dense , green foliage rippling under it like the waves of the sea .
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| like |
to like wave of sea |
379 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Their bodies heaved under me like the waves of the sea , and imparted an involuntary forward movement to me .
It was the truth breaking upon him , truth surging over him like the waves of a sea , breaking down the barriers he had set up , inundating him with a force that was mightier than his own will .
THE GREAT CULMINATION 293 THE KEEPERS OF THE TRAIL CHAPTER I HENRY IN HIS KINGDOM A light wind blew over the great , primeval wilderness of Kentucky , the dense , green foliage rippling under it like the waves of the sea .
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| like |
to like philosopher |
378 |
V:obj:N |
But you do n't like philosophers either , -- and for that dislike you have no equally good reason .
I like the evergreen philosophers , Twain and Meredith .
We like our philosophers ; we like our poets ; we like our genuine workmen ; -- but we love our heroes .
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| like |
to like beggar |
377 |
V:obj:N |
She stood outside the community , and looked in at them like a hungry beggar at a feast .
The ugly beggar was vain , and liked being photographed , so there were lots of his likenesses extant .
" " Then I 'll be a beggar , you like beggars .
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| like |
to like look of you |
377 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Do you know Donald liked the look of you so yesterday ?
But I liked the look of you , even when we were at the inn together .
That 's my confidence in you ; I likes the look of you .
|
| like |
to like egg |
374 |
V:obj:N |
The catch phrase is " I does not like gold eggs and meat .
Mother said last night she 'd like some eggs .
At breakfast the waiter finds out -- if he can -- how you like the climate before finding out how you like your eggs .
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| like |
to like whale |
373 |
V:obj:N |
And to the other he said : " And you perhaps would like a whale ?
Schools of them like whales everywhere !
At length he found foothold on a sandbar , and taking to his heels , whirled the boat after him like a whale when harpooned ; so that the hunters were obliged to cast off their rope , with which strange head-gear the venerable bull made off to the prairies .
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| like |
to like ape |
372 |
V:obj:N |
But Bes leapt on him like an ape upon a bird , and held him fast .
" I do n't like that ape , boss .
They run wild like so many young apes , and wander along the streams or through the forests ; or , if they are brought by their parents to the meeting , there is nothing especially for them .
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| like |
to like swarm |
371 |
V:obj:N |
How like a swarm of gregarious insects , in their unity of purpose and of aspect !
They will set on him like a swarm of bees ; and as they ca n't all make honey of him " -- " They will sting him to death .
On our landing from the boat , the crowd thronged about us like a swarm of bees ; we were seized , pulled , pushed , carried , dragged , and all but lifted in the air by the clamorous multitude .
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| like |
to like moth |
368 |
V:obj:N |
The enamored artist still loved , and hoped against hope , lingering near her like a moth around a candle .
" They heard his voice , and , trembling at the sound , The half-breech 'd legions swarm 'd like moths around ; But , ah !
All that " rosebud garden of girls " were perfect strangers to him , but not so the gallants , who fluttered among them like moths around meteors .
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| like |
to like marble |
368 |
V:obj:N |
She likes the Elgin marbles , and gray days without any sun .
( 4 ) Like wax to receive and like marble to retain .
( 3 ) Like marble to receive and like wax to retain .
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| like |
to like squirrel |
366 |
V:obj:N |
" Clam it , ape , or I 'll climb up you like a squirrel !
" " I like gray squirrels , " said Phonny , " very much indeed , if it is boyishness .
" Dotty peeped into the doctor 's face with her bright eyes , to make sure he really liked squirrels better than babies .
|
| like |
to like fairy |
365 |
V:obj:N |
He looked like a great rough bear and she like a silver fairy .
I am beginning to think I do n't like fairies .
Oh , he would be wicked ; even I could n't like a fairy who did that .
|
| like |
to like wing |
364 |
V:obj:N |
We all like your pretty wings , little dragon fly ; they look like glass and they shine so in the sun .
Yan helped Wing , and they became friends , and Yan secretly liked Wing .
One likes the pheasant 's wing , and one the leg ; The vulgar boil , the learned roast an egg ; Hard task !
|
| like |
to like feel |
363 |
V:obj:N |
When not so active , I like the feel of cotton next to the skin .
To Richards surprise , Jagger liked the feel and cut the vocals quickly .
If I like the feel of a job , I take it .
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| like |
to like husband |
362 |
V:obj:N |
So would not I , unless I liked my husband .
Georgiana , dearest girl , you must like my husband next to me .
Your father 's family did n't like her husband .
|
| like |
to like sailor |
359 |
V:obj:N |
He liked the sailors of Brittany and the peasants of Burgundy .
The troops crowd the bulwarks of the ship , they climb the rigging , many of them like sailors .
I never saw a sailor I liked yet .
|
| like |
to like captain |
358 |
V:obj:N |
We tried to think so , for we liked Captain Price .
Captain Sol generally liked to attend to those things himself .
Captain Tamayo was very well liked and highly respect leader !
|
| like |
to like savage |
358 |
V:obj:N |
" I do n't like your savage as well as I thought I was going to .
If they should ever come to taste them and procure them easily will they not crave for them like all other savages ?
I like a savage better than a comedian .
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| like |
to like pall |
354 |
V:obj:N |
The curtain fell upon him like a pall .
They waited yet -- till black Despair sunk o'er them like a pall .
Discouragement settled down on her like a black pall .
|
| like |
to like pair |
353 |
V:obj:N |
How many pair of white stockings would you like to drive into the mud and let me wash out every week ?
How many pair of white stockings would you like to drive into the mud , and let me wash out every week ?
Would you like a pair of slippers or a straw hat ?
|
| like |
to like english |
351 |
V:obj:N |
Besides , the English were not liked just now !
Her Majesty poor dear lady , did me the honor to say she liked my English .
We English are certainly liked here .
|
| like |
to like little girl |
351 |
V:obj:N |
We like little girls , both of us do .
Paul was twenty-four , and liked slender little girls well under twenty .
Any way , I like little girls , so just let me sit here and get acquainted .
|
| like |
to like poetry |
350 |
V:obj:N |
As a matter of fact , most of you like poetry very much .
He wondered if the writer 's daughter liked poetry .
Thar war some poetry I liked mighty well , too .
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| like |
to like flock of sheep |
348 |
V:obj+prep:N |
' And sword in hand , the two marched into the heart of the crowd , who gave way before them like a flock of sheep .
The largest body of the insurgents were met by the troops , and quickly breaking , were driven before them like a flock of sheep , the greater number being slaughtered without mercy ; the remainder threw themselves into this house , resolving to defend themselves to the last .
Sometimes was seen the doughty Sir Ralph driving the whole herd before him like a flock of sheep ; but the original cause of the mischief generally contrived to mingle with the rabble rout , who in vain attempted to rid themselves of his company .
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| like |
to like flock of sheep |
348 |
V:obj+prep:N |
' And sword in hand , the two marched into the heart of the crowd , who gave way before them like a flock of sheep .
The largest body of the insurgents were met by the troops , and quickly breaking , were driven before them like a flock of sheep , the greater number being slaughtered without mercy ; the remainder threw themselves into this house , resolving to defend themselves to the last .
Sometimes was seen the doughty Sir Ralph driving the whole herd before him like a flock of sheep ; but the original cause of the mischief generally contrived to mingle with the rabble rout , who in vain attempted to rid themselves of his company .
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| like |
to like first |
347 |
V:obj:N |
My first was liked ; the second and third -- I do n't know whether they succeeded or not .
As I landed , a second boche who like the first had been squatted down rose to his feet , slowly , it seemed , alongside me .
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| like |
to like game |
345 |
V:obj:N |
Or , how would you like a game of chess ?
Your daughters would perhaps like a game of tennis with my brothers presently .
Nick likes computer games and business , and is usually the member most concerned with the money aspect of each job .
|
| like |
to like doll |
344 |
V:obj:N |
Ann likes the doll , and will get it a new hat .
And I never liked dolls when I was a little girl , she thought with wonder .
Marcella played with the doll so much , Gruelle figured other children would like the doll too .
|
| like |
to like young man |
344 |
V:obj:N |
For my part I rather think that I like stupid young men .
He liked fair young men , with plenty of flesh .
He is like me ; he likes industrious young men .
|
| like |
to like lark |
341 |
V:obj:N |
K. The nightingale is a sweet bird , but I like the lark better .
The lark has a mere twitter like my own song , I like the lark better .
" Would you like spitted lark for supper , Madonna ?
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| like |
to like it in life |
339 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I never felt so much like it in my life .
" " Miss Gladden seems to think I have a wonderful voice , and Mr. Houston said he had heard but one like it in all his life .
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| like |
to like erm |
339 |
V:obj:N |
So erm well , you might like to say that Mm mm mm mm .
The sort of inner self if you like erm although that 's expressed in , in behaviour quite often .
Erm which I think was , disappointed dad because erm I think he would like to have had a word with him .
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| like |
to like worm |
337 |
V:obj:N |
We older birds often eat fruit , but really we like worms and bugs better .
He likes worms , because they 're for lunch .
We 've all been in except Dora -- and she does n't like worms .
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| like |
to like reading |
337 |
V:obj:N |
Jack started writing The Lab to impress a girl at school who liked reading .
For the sake of rapid reading he would like to have every wide page printed in columns .
He wondered if she liked reading and poetry .
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| like |
to like cur |
336 |
V:obj:N |
Such curs I do n't like .
Ye bark at me like curs , but I will down With twenty " Stand , and who goes there ?
" I never liked the little cur , d -- n him !
|
| like |
to like colour |
335 |
V:obj:N |
Classic leather deck shoes are blue or white , but you can buy canvas versions in just about any colour you like .
Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white .
However , at the same time he liked subdued colours , mist and moonlight .
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| like |
to like ball |
331 |
V:obj:N |
Before I ball you like I used to dream of frigging my sister all those years ago .
The German villa is florid , and likes blue glass balls and artificial fountains in its garden .
Jakie liked a small ball or a marble .
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| like |
to like wise man |
325 |
V:obj:N |
But I think that they weighed the merits of the question itself , and decided upon it like wise men .
" I like the wise men seeing the star and bringing gifts , " said Carl .
|
| like |
to like rainbow |
324 |
V:obj:N |
Any direct action of Russia , therefore , flies before us like a rainbow as futurity expands .
How like a glorious rainbow , then , The future all appeared ?
The most delicate shades of colour seemed breathed , as it were , over them like a dissolving rainbow , whose glowing colours were intermingled and yet singly perceptible .
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| like |
to like movie |
324 |
V:obj:N |
The standard was quite good and people liked the movie .
You know mighty well you like the movies as well as I do .
If you like my stuff , you might not like this movie .
|
| like |
to like cake |
323 |
V:obj:N |
She is showing me how to make those cakes you said you liked .
We liked the cake , but not the icing .
Would you like some cake , or a biscuit or something ?
|
| like |
to like american |
320 |
V:obj:N |
By the very nature of our government our executive cannot be liked and trusted as the Swiss or the American is liked and trusted .
Like the good American he was , he would have liked to continue the race .
There is always this vast difference , however , that the Englishman is predisposed to like the American .
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| like |
to like toad |
316 |
V:obj:N |
She croaked out a welcome to her visitor , and squatting on a tumbled mattress , leered at him like a foul old toad .
Now that Muscadel was a toad he felt he should like to find a quiet damp place to live in , so he crawled to the edge of the basin of the palace fountain .
" Sweet are the vses of aduersitie Which like the toad , ougly and venemous , Weares yet a precious lewell in his head .
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| like |
to like heaven |
313 |
V:obj:N |
People can abuse the Riviera all they like , but after that sort of thing it seems like Heaven .
I do not like to judge a fellow-creature -- Heaven forbid !
( There 's nothing under heaven I like so dearly as a new face with a patch .
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| like |
to like cry |
313 |
V:obj:N |
On his arrival at Tournay in August , 1566 , the people had cried " Vivent les gueux ; " a proof that he liked the cry .
The words in which he begs me to try and prevent " a withdrawal with all its dangers in the East ... from entering the field of possible solutions , " sounds uncommonly like a cry for help .
" I 'm getting fond of old Gillman , " said Martin sitting up and picking dead leaves out of his hair ; " I like his hawker 's cry of Maids , maids , maids !
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| like |
to like monster |
312 |
V:obj:N |
The building , black and twisted against the hard blue sky , raised its head behind us like a malicious monster .
Jesse says he likes monsters that go fast and do something .
Shapeless and threatening , the gloomy thickness of the air floated beside him like the vague monster of a dream .
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| like |
to like coal |
312 |
V:obj:N |
Whether you like coals or carvings best , is no business of mine .
I do n't like the coal that comes into this place .
She likes Coal .
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| like |
to like puppy |
311 |
V:obj:N |
In a day or two , however , old Spot liked the puppy as much as anybody else did .
The children came in helter-skelter , tumbling over one another like so many puppies .
" " Do you really like the puppy the best ?
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| like |
to like wildcat |
310 |
V:obj:N |
I like wildcats and I like Christians , but I do n't like Christian wildcats !
Something caught that foot from behind and tripped him heavily into the dust , then landed upon him like a wildcat and bit and tore at him until with a scream of pain he managed to throw it off .
" Ware came stalking up jauntily and confidently ; but Jumbo , instead of skulking , was up , and at , and on him like a wildcat .
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| like |
to like word with you |
310 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Mercer , I should like a word with you outside .
Mildred , I should like a word with you alone .
If I may detain you a moment , I should like a word with you aside .
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| like |
to like answer |
310 |
V:obj:N |
See here , I asked you a serious question and I should like a serious answer .
Then you can ask yourself questions and give yourself any perishing answers you like .
He is a plain man , not easily put down and liking a plain answer .
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| like |
to like reed |
309 |
V:obj:N |
Stopford likes Reed who is , indeed , a very pleasant fellow to work with .
It was a very dark night , and so stormy that the tiles flew from the roofs of the houses , and the trees in the garden upon which the skeletons hung bent themselves like reeds before the wind .
Most folks ( said she ) were content to go down , trusting to very shallow sticks -- to the world , that brake under them like a reed ; or to the strength of their own hearts , that had scantly the pith of a rush .
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| like |
to like in spite |
308 |
V:prep:N |
Do you know , I like you in spite of your scorn and you like me , too .
Everyone seemed to like him in spite of his odd ways .
Also she liked the look of Mr. Sack , in spite of his being so obviously out of repair .
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| like |
to like feather |
307 |
V:obj:N |
Thy feather 's just The height I like a feather !
I do n't like hats , and I do n't like feathers .
Would she like feathers or flowers ?
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| like |
to like chaff |
306 |
V:obj:N |
And Sir Tristram chased them out of that place and into the courtyard of the castle , and some he smote down and others escaped ; but all who could do so scattered away before him like chaff before the wind .
" " I like your chaff about Tories sacrificing their great men , " said Tom , putting his hands in his pockets to avoid temptation .
Peter had at first tormented me mercilessly about the affair , but when he saw I did not like his chaff he stopped it .
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| like |
to like criminal |
304 |
V:obj:N |
You do not like crime ; you do not like criminals .
So we like these criminals , even if we would n't care to have them call on us .
Tell Larry and Bunco , and the trapper especially , that I feel almost like a criminal for giving them the slip thus .
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| like |
to like vulture |
304 |
V:obj:N |
Scouting parties of both armies , as well as guerrillas , had preyed upon it like vultures .
But nowhere saw I happiness or peace Or rest from cravings that like vultures tear The fibres of the heart .
Vanessa informs Erica about her face and arranges for the tabloids to cover her television interview , picking her apart like vultures .
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| like |
to like figure |
303 |
V:obj:N |
Miss Campbell was a highly popular figure , much liked and respected by the staff .
Put down any figures you like as having passed between us .
When I 'm building with figures I like to give the foundations time to settle .
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| like |
to like artist |
302 |
V:obj:N |
They positively like the artist to fall to temptation .
At last , he murmured haltingly , " You like the artist , then ?
At age 7 , he learned classic guitar , and started to like artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys .
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| like |
to like peter |
301 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , I like Peter ; he is my favorite among your friends .
Peter liked to smell good tobacco , though he smoked none , good or bad .
Peter the Great liked to do strange things , and you can see for yourself that a carriage would run very well here .
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| like |
to like make |
301 |
V:obj:N |
Like makes like , they say .
" The better marksman I grew the less I liked the common make of guns , and I cast about to work an improvement .
Thou wert our leader on the banks of Rhine ; Henceforth our equal ; for the stain of crime Makes all men like to like .
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| like |
to like to thank you |
300 |
V:prep:N |
But you do n't like me to thank you .
Now I 'd like to thank you again for your note of a few weeks ago .
STAR LETTER I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read .
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| like |
to like idiot |
299 |
V:obj:N |
' And then they pass on , and I stand gaping and staring after them like an idiot .
These peasants are quick-witted and foolish ; they guess a great many things better than I could , and then reason on them like idiots .
He stood before me like an idiot , twirling his hat in 'his knotted , disgusting hands , laughing stupidly , with something of his mother 's laugh in the corners of his mouth and of his eyes .
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| like |
to like milk |
297 |
V:obj:N |
But old Tab , the cat , likes milk .
You like just a little milk , I know , but plenty of sugar .
However , he liked the warm milk very much .
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| like |
to like smile |
296 |
V:obj:N |
You 're cheerful ; you 're agreeable ; I like your smile ; your voice , too .
Moreover , she liked this young man 's smile .
Curlie liked the smile even if it did come from one of the " four hundred .
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| like |
to like spectre |
295 |
V:obj:N |
The camp glowing with a hundred fires , and the men and teams moving about among them like spectres .
You are accustomed to think the figures of Michael Angelo sublime -- because they are dark , and colossal , and involved , and mysterious -- because , in a word , they look sometimes like shadows , and sometimes like mountains , and sometimes like spectres , but never like human beings .
How many memories were in that sweet name , each one of which stabbed and exasperated Zilah , rising before him like so many spectres .
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| like |
to like poet |
294 |
V:obj:N |
M. Schmoll liked poets and women , and had wit .
Before we tape a poet we like to read their work and look at their publication credits .
No , lady , 'tis love and beauty make poets : and since you like poets so well , your love and beauties shall make me a poet .
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| like |
to like thread |
293 |
V:obj:N |
To be sure it is very thin , and in the sunlight looks just like the thread of a spider , though there are many of them twisted together to make it -- but for all that I ca n't think why you should n't feel it as well as I do .
Ca n't you see Nick , with his long black hair all cut short , and his vulture neck sticking out of the top end of his clothes , like -- like a thread of sewing cotton in a darning needle ?
A box of needles , buttons and thread she likes best of anything I have yet found , and a grand reckoning day will come before long when Alma finds the little Eskimo has been amusing herself with her property .
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| like |
to like wall |
292 |
V:obj:N |
All these difficulties stand before me like a mountain wall .
For the Dutch do not like walls or hedges .
Down came the huge sea upon us like the wall of a city overwhelming its inhabitants .
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| like |
to like beer |
289 |
V:obj:N |
No , no , a man must learn to like beer .
At home we say : " Would you like a beer ?
Both were out of work , both were German , and both liked beer .
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| like |
to like panther |
288 |
V:obj:N |
Eben it screams just like a panther .
For it has reached the rock , turned it , and open-mouthed , springs at him like a panther .
" I do n't like panthers , " he said wearily .
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| like |
to like commission |
288 |
V:obj:N |
" In the meantime I would like a commission against -- your relatives .
" Vagualame , would you like a highly paid commission ?
This daring act was sufficient to induce Lord Mark Kerr to ask the sergeant whether he would like a commission .
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| like |
to like excitement |
286 |
V:obj:N |
Strange to say , I rather liked the excitement .
Dotty was not afraid ; she liked the excitement .
He liked the excitement and the risk of large operations .
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| like |
to like pluck |
286 |
V:obj:N |
But we like your pluck , and if you will settle the matter for �5 I will give you the money .
He liked , too , her American pluck and savage independence .
The Regular crowd think the war belongs to them ... But I liked their pluck .
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| like |
to like prophet |
286 |
V:obj:N |
The prophet liked to deprive them of their begging tool , namely , the infirmity , so that they were compelled to work .
She answered , because it is my wish to visit the Islamic prophet Muhammad 's grave and I would also like to meet Fatima bint Muhammad .
I liked The Prophet best .
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| like |
to like hair |
285 |
V:obj:N |
To tell the truth I like your own hair far better .
Do n't you like golden hair best , Floyd ?
Your life is not in danger because you have magnificent hair that some woman would like for an ornament .
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| like |
to like steel |
285 |
V:obj:N |
" Tell me what you liked best - the Stelton steel perhaps ?
Dirke began to dread the sight of that white hand ; the gleam of the diamonds seemed to pierce and pain him like sharp steel .
" I like steel .
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| like |
to like pillar |
285 |
V:obj:N |
The crowds should be like pillars of Athens , and she like a great pillar .
It was said of Cromwell by his secretary that hope shone in him like a fiery pillar when it had gone out in every other .
" exclaimed the sisters as the captain stood before them like a great pillar of white fur , with nothing of him visible save the eyes and feet .
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| like |
to like mockery |
283 |
V:obj:N |
For my part , I like this daylight mockery better .
In the face of such facts , it seems almost like mockery to ask if these Indians were capable of falling in love .
Now animals do not like mockery .
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| like |
to like mirror |
283 |
V:obj:N |
It was a beautiful evening , for the wind had subsided , and the river stretched out before them like a huge mirror .
The sea lay before us like a vast mirror , and the waves which broke upon the shore were so tiny as scarcely to produce a murmur .
It was a beautiful evening , and the river stretched out before him like a great mirror , with not a ripple disturbing its surface .
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| like |
to like bell |
282 |
V:obj:N |
The next bell I would like to sound out is -- COME TO THE MARRIAGE !
" " I should like some nice bells .
According to historian Stanley Rosenbaum , " Bell may , indeed , be the least liked member of Bloomsbury .
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| like |
to like fighting |
282 |
V:obj:N |
But he liked the fighting , as he thought , against the narrow and frightened orthodoxy round him .
I do n't like this fighting in the dark .
I do n't like the fighting , but I 'm ready to do my share if you 'll only feed me well .
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| like |
to like machine |
280 |
V:obj:N |
You know , sir , how I likes the machines and studies 'em at odd times .
He does not like the new machine , and father has told him to find another place by the end of the month .
I do n't like those big , heavy machines .
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| like |
to like iron |
279 |
V:obj:N |
The possibility of such a thing seared through him like a hot iron , driving the dulness from his brain , the lethargy from his limbs .
I like iron in men .
And now behold the worthy Bozzy , so pre-possessed and held back by nature and by art , fly nevertheless like iron to its magnet , whither his better genius called !
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| like |
to like bat |
279 |
V:obj:N |
Hit it any way you like , and hold your bat straight .
It was remarkable , the way she could n't learn to like private bats .
" I do n't like bats .
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| like |
to like world |
278 |
V:obj:N |
My time was my own ; I could do anything in the world I liked .
The more I saw of the great world , the better I liked my own world .
But I do n't like the snowy world after the storm has passed .
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| like |
to like cow |
276 |
V:obj:N |
Of course , Boy Blue likes the cows and sheep best .
How many cows would you like for your peaceable intentions ?
He looked like some splendid bull , and she like some splendid cow , grazing .
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| like |
to like cheese |
275 |
V:obj:N |
Well , if you had a brother do you think he 'd like cheese ?
If you 'd like cheese and biscuits with wine .
He is apparently regarded as the worlds third most handsome rat , and likes cheese a lot .
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| like |
to like 'er |
275 |
V:obj:N |
The new curick do n't like 'er .
Ees nice ; you like 'er .
And I do n't like this windin ' 'er up every time you wanta start .
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| like |
to like goat |
274 |
V:obj:N |
It may be all right , but I 'm afraid it 's going to be a long time before I learn to like goat .
" I do n't like wet goats .
" " You would n't like goats if they butted you , would you ?
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| like |
to like frog |
271 |
V:obj:N |
But please remember that lions do not like frogs .
There 's just something ... I really do n't like frogs .
They like frogs and toads and bolt their food .
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| like |
to like snail |
271 |
V:obj:N |
The reader must be contented with quite a short extract : -- " Outside the Dormitory door I walked me slow upon the floor And just outside the Doctor 's study A youth I met all in a hurry ; His name perhaps I had better not tell But like a snail retire into my shell .
I do n't want surprises ; I want what you 've got -- the thing that 's kept you good-tempered while we lie here like snails on the rocks .
" Astonished at so rude a salutation , the great Sphinx stopped short , and bridling up herself , drew in her head , like a snail when it touches something that it does not like : the bulls set up a horrid bellowing , the crickets sounded an alarm , and Gog and Magog advanced before the rest .
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| like |
to like dream to me |
271 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Sometimes my life at Vienna and Berlin seems almost like a dream to me , something unreal , as though I were playing at being some other woman .
" That experience of ours seems just like a dream to me , " said Bob , as the waiter left to get the dessert .
It seems almost like a dream to me , and whenever I shut my eyes , I find myself forgetting that I am not in Dinwiddie -- but , you remember , your father had always promised me that I should come for the first night of his new play , which will be acted to-morrow .
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| like |
to like clap of thunder |
271 |
V:obj+prep:N |
It was gentle , almost furtive , but it startled them both like a clap of thunder .
It was at this point that they glided in front of the cave , and drew forth the yell which burst upon them like a clap of thunder .
This thing which changed all our lives the way war does , came upon me like a clap of thunder .
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| like |
to like clap of thunder |
271 |
V:obj+prep:N |
It was gentle , almost furtive , but it startled them both like a clap of thunder .
It was at this point that they glided in front of the cave , and drew forth the yell which burst upon them like a clap of thunder .
This thing which changed all our lives the way war does , came upon me like a clap of thunder .
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| like |
to like roar |
271 |
V:obj:N |
" I do n't like the roar of the traffic .
He liked the roar of the fog-horns .
I like the roar of trade .
|
| like |
to like fountain |
269 |
V:obj:N |
We have seen him standing before us like unto a dark fountain breaking from some beetling cliff .
Joy burst up in him like a fountain in the desert .
I thought you liked fountains .
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| like |
to like swan |
269 |
V:obj:N |
" I liked those swans at Lincoln Park .
Yon snow-white cloud that sails sublime in ether Is but the sovereign Zeus , who like a swan Flies to fair-ankled Leda !
The extravagant reputation enjoyed by Gaudier in this country will perhaps cross the mind of anyone who happens to read my essay on Wilcoxism : native , or even resident , geese look uncommonly like swans on home waters : to see them as they are you should see them abroad .
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| like |
to like mushroom |
269 |
V:obj:N |
We shall see at once that Mr. Chesterton likes mushrooms .
And Mr. Chesterton does not like mushrooms !
But Mr. Chesterton does not like mushrooms !
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| like |
to like magic |
269 |
V:obj:N |
Use my name in any magic you like .
I used to think I liked magic and things .
" " Cobbler " Horn 's " new tonic " acted liked magic , and he was soon out of the doctor 's hands .
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| like |
to like bein |
268 |
V:obj:N |
How do you reckon you 'll like bein ' a fine lady anyhow ?
But his place sounds nice , and I like bein ' with him pretty well .
He likes bein ' with us and listenin ' to our yarns .
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| like |
to like cooking |
268 |
V:obj:N |
Learning to like cooking alone is an ongoing process .
They went to supper at a restaurant ; the general does n't like the cooking here .
There , now pitch in and tell me how you like grandma 's cooking .
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| like |
to like maid |
267 |
V:obj:N |
Robert , you do not like old maids .
He was sure that Constance would like Pierrette 's maid .
" " If only servants knew how much one liked and respected a really good maid !
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| like |
to like saint |
266 |
V:obj:N |
You have a right , if you speak as the ordinary man , to ask if you will like the saint .
I do n't like saints of women and I want to keep on liking you , little Bluebird .
" I like your saint , " the old man remarked , addressing Porbus .
|
| like |
to like business |
266 |
V:obj:N |
You know , I think I shall like business .
You seem to me positively to like public business .
Sorry you do n't like the business , Miss Lee .
|
| like |
to like schoolgirl |
265 |
V:obj:N |
Bridget skimmed through the groups of admirers , stopping to murmur something to Lady Tallant who had met her half way ; then stopped with hands before her like a meek schoolgirl , in front of Mrs Gildea and Colin McKeith -- he almost the only man who had made no movement towards her .
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| like |
to like yesterday |
264 |
V:obj:N |
Ma was saying yesterday she 'd like to have him come any time .
" I did n't like her yesterday , and to-day I hate her !
Mr Murray made it clear yesterday that he would like the counties to accept the whole plan , not just parts of it as has happened with earlier committees .
|
| like |
to like spark |
264 |
V:obj:N |
I like a spark of the devil .
This stanza , about the fishermen 's boats at night , like sparks upon the water , is one I like , because it is what John once described to me .
His face , too , wore such a polish of seasoned grime , that his sloe-eyes sparkled from out it like lustrous sparks in fresh coal .
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| like |
to like storm |
264 |
V:obj:N |
But then , every moment , all the rest comes rushing in upon me like a storm .
Thoughts the woman and the man had sown rose up in a flock and fell upon him like a storm of sand .
It was the sort of storm Keith liked .
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| like |
to like sitting |
264 |
V:obj:N |
I liked the stormy sittings best .
|
| like |
to like crow |
264 |
V:obj:N |
Now , if there was anything Crow liked , it was a fried egg -- two fried eggs .
They need n't have done it if they had been willing to knuckle down and say they liked crow when they did n't .
There were white crows , or at least there were rumors of them , and every crow liked to believe the story was true .
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| like |
to like ox |
264 |
V:obj:N |
" " You are very fond of me , perhaps -- just as the butcher likes the ox that he drives to the slaughter-house .
Aw did n't stop to argyfy , -- But fell 'd him like an ox ; An Mary Hanner tried to fly On top o'th ' music box .
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| like |
to like firefly |
262 |
V:obj:N |
He liked the fireflies , and the frogs ; the murmur of the brook , and the soft voice speaking out of the darkness .
" 'I should like you , ' I said , approaching as near as I could , for the sparks , like little fireflies on a Riviera evening , were playing profoundly round my trousers , 'I should like to hear from your own lips the reasons which have caused you to resign .
|
| like |
to like of thing |
262 |
V:prep:N |
Oh , I should like that , of all things !
And while I like my own way of doin ' things , I can get a likely man to help around the house .
Johnson liked him of all things in a year or two .
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| like |
to like swine |
260 |
V:obj:N |
And what shall we say of them who like the swine live only for eating and drinking , and enjoyment ?
Like a dog of the hills did he pant and like the swine of the heathen did he grunt .
There above How many now hold themselves mighty kings Who here like swine shall wallow in the mire , Leaving behind them horrible dispraise !
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| like |
to like cattle |
259 |
V:obj:N |
They was selling themselves just like cattle and I would n't have nothing to do with that .
If you like the cattle and want them , leave it all to me .
He must like cattle that range wide , for we rode around every outside bunch .
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| like |
to like clown |
259 |
V:obj:N |
He said , " I do n't like that clown .
A boy finds out and does n't like clowns anymore afterwards .
" You ought to see it ; looks just like a circus clown .
|
| like |
to like jack |
259 |
V:obj:N |
The miners had always liked Jack , Norman told her .
By the end of the film , Jack is both liked and respected by everyone in recognition of the adversity he has overcome .
Jack was liked at Bunker 's , and his periods of depression and restlessness became less frequent .
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| like |
to like vision |
259 |
V:obj:N |
The last vision you would like to glut your eyes on before blindness smote you !
Images from the past kept urging themselves upon him like delirious visions strangely blended with thirst and anguish .
At sunset the lake seems indeed like the vision that John saw , -- 'a sea of glass , mingled with fire .
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| like |
to like yes |
259 |
V:obj:N |
Erm , you seem to like modern furniture Yes , yes Why did you choose modern furniture ?
I can swear it I like okay Hello Hi Nick Yes What 're you doing man ?
Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just a make some general comments about the , I mean I like that we talked about that before , I like the ten levels Yes .
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| like |
to like bunch |
258 |
V:obj:N |
My word , I should like a few bunches now !
Would n't you like a great , big bunch of them under your nose always ?
" " Would you like a bunch of violets ?
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| like |
to like thunderclap |
257 |
V:obj:N |
The realization fell upon me like a thunderclap .
|
| like |
to like frankness |
257 |
V:obj:N |
The girl had pluck and he liked her frankness .
The Assembly liked the frankness of the Governor-in-Chief .
Grandma Cobb owned with the greatest frankness that she should like to stay .
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| like |
to like look of place |
256 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Flowers and vines -- ah , I like the looks of this place !
The weather was delicious ; she liked the look of the place , the last weeks had been hectic .
Animals arrived , liked the look of the place , took up their quarters , settled down , spread , and flourished .
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| like |
to like look of place |
256 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Flowers and vines -- ah , I like the looks of this place !
The weather was delicious ; she liked the look of the place , the last weeks had been hectic .
Animals arrived , liked the look of the place , took up their quarters , settled down , spread , and flourished .
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| like |
to like change |
256 |
V:obj:N |
The moon is constantly changing and I like change .
We had never lived in the country before , and we liked the change .
We seem to use words in a new sense -- and I confess I do n't like the change .
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| like |
to like feller |
255 |
V:obj:N |
Guess I ought t ' be patient ; but I would 'a ' liked a little feller .
If you like a feller you do n't mind about what he says .
They 'd jest as lief shoot a feller they did n't like as not .
|
| like |
to like flash of light |
254 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The owl hooted at me , and the jay shot past me like a blue flash of light , uttering her prolonged , shrill cry .
|
| like |
to like color |
254 |
V:obj:N |
We like bright colors , and a long train .
Try wearing a dull colored outfit as Elephants do n't like bright colors .
It is beautiful , but I like quiet colors .
|
| like |
to like flash of light |
254 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The owl hooted at me , and the jay shot past me like a blue flash of light , uttering her prolonged , shrill cry .
|
| like |
to like david |
253 |
V:obj:N |
Colonel Gresham is sure to like David , and it is going to mean everything for the boy .
David liked to be envied ; he minded less about being loved .
None of them had liked David very much .
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| like |
to like sky |
253 |
V:obj:N |
Can you think of any thing else in the sky that you would like to know a little about ?
The glamour of a lawless life stretched over him like the sky over the sea down on all sides to an unbroken horizon .
Are n't they like a morning sky ?
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| like |
to like noise |
253 |
V:obj:N |
You see , on that day we can make all the noise we like and not get arrested .
Or perhaps he liked a noise like the voice of a sick cricket .
Yes , my child ; come and stay as long as you like , and make as much noise as you like .
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| like |
to like christmas |
251 |
V:obj:N |
He rather liked Christmas , although he was ashamed to say so before Frank .
Oh , how they liked Christmas , and Santa Claus and Christmas trees !
Our landlady obviously liked Christmas for she began to prepare good fare for us , with the help of her mentally retarded maid .
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| like |
to like character |
251 |
V:obj:N |
But I do n't like these suspicious characters hanging about .
We like a new character , now and then .
Critical reaction to the first episodes was negative , with many reviewers not liking the characters and finding the comedy drama format unusual .
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| like |
to like weather |
251 |
V:obj:N |
He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows .
Nor does it like too much wet weather , for then the cotton gets damp and sodden and cannot be picked .
The Boer likes wet weather , probably because he gets so little of it .
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| like |
to like doctor |
250 |
V:obj:N |
Would n't you like the doctor to give you something before you go home ?
He was a good fellow -- I always liked the doctor !
And I agreed with her , though I no longer liked the doctor .
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| like |
to like insect |
247 |
V:obj:N |
Of course I like insects and fruits just as my relations do , but I like best to eat acorns .
It was ascertained what plant the insects liked most .
Then a little girl in a dark room opens a box containing many insects that she likes .
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| like |
to like garden |
247 |
V:obj:N |
These lots would be tended to like a garden .
Hello parks and gardens yeah , I 'd like to report a missing flower bed .
Fred liked a garden too , and these boys ' gardens were side by side .
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| like |
to like englishman |
247 |
V:obj:N |
The Commodore , who had really grown to like the Englishman , expressed his regret .
After all , whatever you say , Larry , they like an Englishman .
They like the Englishman , but they look upon the Boer as something to wipe off the face of the earth .
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| like |
to like sermon |
246 |
V:obj:N |
The freckled maid as she lighted me to my room inquired how I liked the sermon .
All they could say to you then was how much they liked your sermon .
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons , and I set out by liking the end very much .
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| like |
to like bullet |
245 |
V:obj:N |
She shot out her words at him like so many explosive bullets .
I would n't like being carried through here , and shot out of the muzzle like a bullet .
" The question shot at her like a bullet .
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| like |
to like honey |
245 |
V:obj:N |
They like to store their honey as far from the entrance as possible .
Thinking they might like honey better , a fresh flower was filled with it every day .
They are also more carnivorous than their European counterparts , and do not seem to like honey .
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| like |
to like ray |
245 |
V:obj:N |
Of a sudden a village behind us went up in flames , the light falling on us like the rays of a huge reflector .
Sir James told me that occasionally happened , like -- like a ray of sunlight after a stormy day .
" And I 'd like Ray to come with me .
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| like |
to like sparrow |
245 |
V:obj:N |
He perks himself like a sparrow on a paling .
" " I do n't like The Sparrow taking such a deep interest in his welfare , " growled the woman beneath her breath .
He found this bird -- which is not new to science -- to be a noisy and solitary fellow , roaming the thick woods alone , dining upon figs and other fruits , and indulging in the strange habit of " dusting " itself like a city sparrow .
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| like |
to like sunbeam |
244 |
V:obj:N |
Her bright little face shone up at him like a sunbeam .
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| like |
to like princess |
244 |
V:obj:N |
You must like the Princess and think the wicked fairy quite detestable .
Among the others in my party , four-year-old Caitlin liked the Princess best .
The Princess liked to entertain her guests in a fashion of her own .
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| like |
to like rocket |
244 |
V:obj:N |
* * * * * I do n't like rockets .
O'Riley shot past him like a rocket , and the next instant went head foremost into the pool of water .
During the first moments of this news the joy was calm and mingled with emotion ; afterwards , however , it was lively , and shot forth like rockets in a thousand directions .
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| like |
to like sob |
244 |
V:obj:N |
" But , if they elect their President , he may send down an army to free you , " he went on , with something like a sob of anger , " and I 'd like to know what we 'd do then , Congo .
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| like |
to like chocolate |
244 |
V:obj:N |
Suppose Bob likes only chocolate , and Carol only vanilla .
They like chocolate and are able to sing .
She might like chocolates best , you know .
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| like |
to like oyster |
242 |
V:obj:N |
It is a peculiarity like -- like not liking oysters .
The public disliked the Southern Pacific and the oyster growers , and liked cheap oysters .
Now there are few people clothed in sane minds who do not like raw oysters .
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| like |
to like babe |
241 |
V:obj:N |
High and low , and all huddled together like so many babes in a nursing-home .
She wanted desperately to like Babe ; she wanted even more desperately to be liked .
She does not like Babe at all .
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| like |
to like couple |
240 |
V:obj:N |
The lesbian couple liked to park on the Colonial Parkway for privacy .
Your Highness , I 'd like a couple of good horses and two good lanterns .
Would you like a couple of handfuls for yourself , and say ten pieces for your clerk ?
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| like |
to like clarification |
239 |
V:obj:N |
Er so one would like a little bit more clarification there perhaps .
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| like |
to like of man |
238 |
V:prep:N |
The dress of the women , like that of the men , is double during winter .
What poet has ever said things like that of an old man , even of Methuselah ?
All creatures , though destitute of language like that of man , make themselves properly understood by their mates , their kindred , and their associates .
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| like |
to like log |
237 |
V:obj:N |
The sea was perfectly quiescent , and the rude embarkation rested upon it like a log .
and I like a senseless log by the wayside , when others are pushing on , bit and spur , to the great road .
As dark grew on , Mr. Carvel liked the blazing logs for light , and presently sets the decanter on the corner of the table and draws nearer the fire , his guests following .
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| like |
to like human |
236 |
V:obj:N |
She likes humans and sees no need to destroy the planet because of the actions of a few bad eggs .
He developed referential ability as early as most human children , and points to and shows objects just like humans do .
He possesses full control over his curse , and he does n't harm any human he likes .
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| like |
to like orange |
236 |
V:obj:N |
For my part I was willing that any man should like oranges .
He especially liked orange against pinks and acid yellow against blues .
She would have liked an orange ; but it appeared that oranges were not eaten in the dress circle .
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| like |
to like of child |
234 |
V:prep:N |
His voice was frightened , bewildered , like that of a child .
He writes concerning the child born deaf : " His voice seems just like that of other children .
Again his voice had such a plaintive ring in it -- almost like that of a begging child .
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| like |
to like arrow from bow |
234 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Lieverl� accompanied us , flying alongside of us like an arrow from the bow .
The latent power of the iron horse could have shot it forth like an arrow from a bow , or have blown the whole station to atoms .
She stood motionless , utterly astounded at his unheard-of proposal , and not a little indignant ; but when , with a good-natured smile upon his round face , he came near to claim the kiss he no doubt thought himself sure of , Ellen shot from him like an arrow from a bow .
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| like |
to like london |
234 |
V:obj:N |
You 've learned to like London well enough since you sat down to the table of Dives .
Yes , of course you like London .
She likes London very much , and wishes to accompany her father .
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| like |
to like arrow from bow |
234 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Lieverl� accompanied us , flying alongside of us like an arrow from the bow .
The latent power of the iron horse could have shot it forth like an arrow from a bow , or have blown the whole station to atoms .
She stood motionless , utterly astounded at his unheard-of proposal , and not a little indignant ; but when , with a good-natured smile upon his round face , he came near to claim the kiss he no doubt thought himself sure of , Ellen shot from him like an arrow from a bow .
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| like |
to like beast of prey |
233 |
V:obj+prep:N |
You need not stamp your foot , nor frown , nor glare upon me like a beast of prey .
Supper was spread in the forecabin , and at the signal to assemble the men rushed to the tables like as many beasts of prey .
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| like |
to like beast of prey |
233 |
V:obj+prep:N |
You need not stamp your foot , nor frown , nor glare upon me like a beast of prey .
Supper was spread in the forecabin , and at the signal to assemble the men rushed to the tables like as many beasts of prey .
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| like |
to like walk |
233 |
V:obj:N |
Gods , how I 'd like a walk and talk with you !
Yes , I should like a long walk , if you will not think me idle .
We all liked the long plank walk and the big house on top of the hill was a pretty place .
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| like |
to like swimming |
233 |
V:obj:N |
But Marie likes swimming , so I do n't mind going with her .
He also likes swimming , reading and is a keen Liverpool FC supporter .
He was named after a swimming pool , despite the fact that neither his father or mother particularly liked swimming .
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| like |
to like wax |
232 |
V:obj:N |
( 2 ) Like wax to receive and like wax to retain .
( 3 ) Like marble to receive and like wax to retain .
( 4 ) Like wax to receive and like marble to retain .
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| like |
to like uncle |
232 |
V:obj:N |
You do not seem to like your uncle , lad .
But then the uncle liked so well to lead , and Mr. George was so unwilling to be led !
Now , frankly you do n't like that old uncle of yours ?
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| like |
to like mice |
232 |
V:obj:N |
You like mice , do n't you ?
They like mice , fruits , dead animals , and insects .
" I do n't believe I would like the mice !
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| like |
to like look of sky |
231 |
V:obj+prep:N |
And I do n't like the looks of the sky to-day .
But I do n't like the looks of the sky over there " -- pointing .
I do not like the look of the sky .
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| like |
to like look of sky |
231 |
V:obj+prep:N |
And I do n't like the looks of the sky to-day .
But I do n't like the looks of the sky over there " -- pointing .
I do not like the look of the sky .
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| like |
to like ride |
231 |
V:obj:N |
You would n't like a ride in a cab , would you ?
If you girls would like the ride you can motor over with me .
Many people liked the floorless ride better than with the floor .
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| like |
to like peal |
231 |
V:obj:N |
The tower was said to contain the largest bell in Cornwall , it having been made in the time of a vicar who , not liking the peals , had all the other bells melted down to make one large one .
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| like |
to like virgin |
230 |
V:obj:N |
I 'd like the Virgin to wear a blue cloak .
Chance had given me two virgins out of four women , that was a luxury unthought of , uncared for , and in no way appreciated ; the virgins were no more liked by me than the others .
I repeated , 'Now is the kingdom of Heaven like unto ten virgins , who went forth to meet the Bridegroom , five wise and five foolish ; they that were foolish took their lamps , but took no oil with them ; but they that were wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps .
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| like |
to like look of fellow |
229 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He really liked the look of the fellow extraordinarily well .
" I do n't like the look of the fellow .
I never liked the look of those fellows , Quest .
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| like |
to like look of fellow |
229 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He really liked the look of the fellow extraordinarily well .
" I do n't like the look of the fellow .
I never liked the look of those fellows , Quest .
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| like |
to like tide |
228 |
V:obj:N |
Beyond the far edge of the world , the first yellow rays of sunlight are flooding toward us like the tide .
Lawlessness , dissipation , and corruption are sweeping in upon us like an overwhelming tide .
" Relief washed through her like an incoming tide .
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| like |
to like word |
228 |
V:obj:N |
Look here , I would like a word or two with you .
Mercer , I should like a word with you outside .
If you 'll allow me , I would like a word with your friend ?
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| like |
to like blast |
228 |
V:obj:N |
The wind roared down upon them like a blast from hell .
But despondency comes over us like the withering blasts of winter .
Lying squarely athwart the Line , the sun beats down upon it like the blast from an open furnace-door .
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| like |
to like air |
228 |
V:obj:N |
But I should think you would like the air .
You are too strong to like warm air in the winter .
You always liked the fresh air , the sunshine in the morning .
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| like |
to like fact |
227 |
V:obj:N |
You can make any use of the fact you like .
Cherry also liked the fact that fights were a big part of Smith 's game .
We just liked the fact that we could see a change in the audience at a certain point " .
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| like |
to like weed |
227 |
V:obj:N |
Glad to have you drop in to-night if you like the weed .
" Old boy do n't like the weed , I suppose , " Foker said .
" " The more you think about it , " said Mrs. Easterfield , " the more you like weeds .
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| like |
to like veil |
227 |
V:obj:N |
The November haze hung over it now like a thin veil , giving great sweetness and softness to the scene .
Some vision , vague but sublime , hovered over him like a rippling veil through which gleamed the splendour of the mysterious treasure of ultimate felicity .
Shortly afterwards , as we were observing the Lion shortening sail , the first of the rain descended between her and us like a lowered veil .
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| like |
to like fruit |
227 |
V:obj:N |
The quantity of sugar may be increased if the fruit is liked sweet .
The monks may have planted it ; they liked fruit , those old fellows .
At night I used to give it a little meat , but not much ; but most kinds of fruit it seemed to like .
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| like |
to like ice |
227 |
V:obj:N |
Colonel Mills listened patiently and then said , " But you like ice during the summer , do n't you ?
" Would you like some ice in your drinking water ?
Perhaps you 'd like an ice ?
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| like |
to like clap |
226 |
V:obj:N |
It was gentle , almost furtive , but it startled them both like a clap of thunder .
It was at this point that they glided in front of the cave , and drew forth the yell which burst upon them like a clap of thunder .
This thing which changed all our lives the way war does , came upon me like a clap of thunder .
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| like |
to like servant |
226 |
V:obj:N |
We can get new servants I shall like much better .
You 'll like my servants , I think .
Our little general servant tapped at the door -- Marion always liked the servant to tap -- and appeared .
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| like |
to like brute |
225 |
V:obj:N |
The gardener says , I ought to add , The centipede is not so bad ; He rather likes the brutes .
I do n't like the brutes .
and on us as well : They live and die like brutes , and we like men : Both go alone into the dark -- what then ?
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| like |
to like mummy |
225 |
V:obj:N |
The milkman likes Mummy .
Glad you like the mummy .
' " The prisoner sat between us like an awful gashed mummy as to the face , a martial scarecrow , a grotesque horror of rags and dirt , with awful living eyes , full of vitality , full of unquenchable fire , in a body of horrible affliction , a skeleton at the feast of glory .
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| like |
to like cloth |
224 |
V:obj:N |
But I like this tan cloth awful well , do n't you ?
They like the smooth-looking cloth such as I have seen made in Yorkshire , manufactured out of rags .
Typically , Lawrence makes use of the reinforcing effect of repetition in cases like * pink chrysanthemums like pink cloths * ( 18 ) .
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| like |
to like cup |
224 |
V:obj:N |
But do n't you think you would like a cup of coffee and a nice piece of toast ?
But the woman and the child might like a cup of tay .
Why , I should like a cup myself uncommonly .
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| like |
to like mouse |
224 |
V:obj:N |
" Maybe it 's only a little mouse -- I like a funny little mouse , " said Flossie .
She nibbled at this person and that like a cautious and discriminating mouse , venturing on a full taste if she liked the flavor , scampering if she did n't .
" " Oh , there 's nothing serious against him that I know of ; only I do n't think Squire Tempest would have liked a singing man any more than he would have liked a singing mouse .
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| like |
to like magpie |
224 |
V:obj:N |
' said he ( he was a little apt to swear ) , 'I look 'd like a magpie .
Minus a breezy win over eventual spooners St Kilda , there was not much to like about the Magpies until the closing stages of the season , when Nick Davis led the side to a rousing victory over the Kangaroos at Colonial Stadium .
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| like |
to like pack |
223 |
V:obj:N |
If I ever once let these people get a glimpse of the higher side of my nature , they would set on me like a pack of wolves and tear me in pieces .
They rushed at him like a pack of wolves .
Do n't go riding at them like a pack of Indians or you will have all the stampede you want to see , " exclaimed Ned .
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| like |
to like kind of thing |
223 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Some officers are conservative and do n't like that kind of thing .
Now , I like this kind of thing once in a way .
Tell me if you like the kind of thing ; if you do , it is rather a pleasure to write thus occasionally .
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| like |
to like name |
223 |
V:obj:N |
We had a good old dog named Shot , and I have always liked the name .
Then you did n't like the name of Rover -- but liked Chance .
We do not like the ugly name in the least .
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| like |
to like lamp |
223 |
V:obj:N |
You 'd like the lamp lit , I suppose ?
Would you like an old student lamp ?
" " I like a lamp that burns all night .
|
| like |
to like kind of thing |
223 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Some officers are conservative and do n't like that kind of thing .
Now , I like this kind of thing once in a way .
Tell me if you like the kind of thing ; if you do , it is rather a pleasure to write thus occasionally .
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| like |
to like mask |
222 |
V:obj:N |
There is no harmful effect on either mother or baby but some women do n't like the mask over their face .
From ten o'clock till any time you like ( dash ) masks until one ( period ) .
He recalled the Secretary 's fine , inscrutable face and that something back of its mask that he had liked and understood .
|
| like |
to like soup |
221 |
V:obj:N |
If the soup is liked thin , of course more water can be added .
How would you like some hot turtle soup ?
You like soup , fish , eh ?
|
| like |
to like lump |
220 |
V:obj:N |
Men and women ai n't like lumps of sugar .
And I should like to say -- " A sudden awkward lump jumped into his throat .
But she likes the lumps in er , I was gon na buy some pickled onions today , till I saw the price !
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| like |
to like teacher |
220 |
V:obj:N |
The child must like the school , like the teacher , and want to learn .
If you have n't a teacher yet I should so like to recommend mine .
Oh , for three or four days he asked questions quite like just a teacher .
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| like |
to like ocean |
220 |
V:obj:N |
But I do n't like the ocean so much now , if it made your father drown .
" " I think I shall like the ocean .
" Why do n't you like the ocean ?
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| like |
to like priest |
220 |
V:obj:N |
When would you like the priest to visit you ?
But I do not like priests , and this one least of all .
He understood , and would have greatly liked to calm and comfort the young priest whose soul was so grievously tortured by doubt .
|
| like |
to like romance |
218 |
V:obj:N |
Each country has its ways , but I like romance .
Her own romance I should like to tell you some day .
He begged me not to mention it , but I thought you 'd like the romance of the thing .
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| like |
to like mole |
218 |
V:obj:N |
She seemed to like the mole very much .
" " How like moles you pious women can be if you try !
Our thoughts wandered away irresistibly to those times when the Christians lived here like moles underground , until they died , and were laid by the loving and devoted hands of their comrades in these dark shelves of the rock .
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| like |
to like pea |
217 |
V:obj:N |
He might like peas for breakfast at ten o'clock P. M. ; likewise broad beans .
He liked the beach pea , ( Lathyrus maritimus , ) cooked green , as well as the cultivated .
I do n't like peas , do you ?
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| like |
to like goddess |
217 |
V:obj:N |
I liked to dream of a blonde goddess in her own Venusberg one day , and the next I would be off over the mountains with an armed Brunhild .
Understandably not the most liked goddess , Errata was n't invited to many weddings , one of which was Peloria and Theta 's .
" " God help me , little one -- so I did , " said I. All in a flash her laughing mood was gone and she stood before me like an accusing goddess .
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| like |
to like ice cream |
217 |
V:obj:N |
Do you feel that you 'd like some ice cream ?
Would n't you like some more ice cream ?
Witch voice : " You like ice cream , do n't you ?
|
| like |
to like flattery |
217 |
V:obj:N |
She liked the flattery , and was pleased to be pointed out as a person of importance .
Zenobia liked flattery , and always said she did .
Everyone likes flattery , and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel .
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| like |
to like potato |
215 |
V:obj:N |
Nooksack is pretty good if you like white , all-purpose potatoes .
You know you do n't like roast potatoes if they 're overdone .
If potatoes are liked , they make a nice substitute for bread-crumbs .
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| like |
to like banana |
214 |
V:obj:N |
But I think he liked bananas .
" " Yes , " said Fitz ; " I like bananas .
Would you like a banana ?
|
| like |
to like indra |
214 |
V:obj:N |
" Then Yuyutsu , O king , with a winged arrow of keen edge struck Uluka with great force , like ( Indra himself striking ) a mountain with the thunderbolt .
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| like |
to like dick |
214 |
V:obj:N |
You could n't blame her for liking Dick , though .
Dick liked to sit on Jeffersons shoulder as Jefferson hummed and worked .
Sahwah liked Dick , too , but no better than she liked most of the boys in the class .
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| like |
to like vise |
214 |
V:obj:N |
But as he fell , and as the last breath in his body seemed to leave him forever , he pushed the ball away from him at arm 's length and set his fingers about it like so many vises !
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| like |
to like avalanche |
214 |
V:obj:N |
" " Thereby bringing the whole power of the gambling ring down on him like an avalanche .
It rushed upon us like an avalanche on a hamlet in an Alpine valley .
It was now too late to attempt bringing her to the wind ; still it became more urgent to do something to prevent us from being submerged by the huge seas , which came thundering after us like avalanches on our quarters .
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| like |
to like dragon |
214 |
V:obj:N |
You would n't like the nasty dragons to catch you .
Look at the crowds , the band in full blast , the restless horses which like dragons no more than they like bears .
When Flambeau pointed out a rock shaped like a dragon , he looked at it and thought it very like a dragon .
|
| like |
to like cherry |
214 |
V:obj:N |
We had wild plums and little wild cherries with stems just like tame cherries , on our farm .
He likes cherries , it is true ; and who can blame him ?
" " Well , I do n't like cherries , anyhow .
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| like |
to like grass |
212 |
V:obj:N |
Prince liked the bright sunlight , he liked the gentle breeze , he liked the fresh grass .
He liked tender grass , but it was not very filling .
But if a modern vegetarian aristocrat were to say to the poor , " But why do n't you like grass ?
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| like |
to like bolt |
211 |
V:obj:N |
It fell upon them like a bolt out of a June sky .
The pain shot through him like a lightning bolt , but in his fury he ignored it .
" Disaster fell upon him like a bolt out of a June sky .
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| like |
to like pear |
210 |
V:obj:N |
You 'd like all the pears in the basket .
The King said he liked apples , The Queen said she liked pears .
He knew he was n't in any way fit for Sue , and he liked pears about as well as Jim Rickets .
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| like |
to like wasp |
210 |
V:obj:N |
Now , our farmer 's boy , though he liked pudding , did not like wasps , which he fancied were always ready to sting ; and being himself rather hasty in temper , he at once declared war against the little intruder .
Not far from the road it lies , yet caught Far out of reach Of the road 's dust And the dusty thought Of passers-by , though each Stops , and turns , and must Look down at it like a wasp at the muslined peach .
They must sting like wasps , revenge like wasps , hold altogether like wasps , build like wasps , work hard like wasps , rob like wasps ; then , like the wasps , they will be the terror of all around , and kill and eat all their enemies .
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| like |
to like needle |
210 |
V:obj:N |
The day was exceedingly cold , and the wind pierced through us like needles of ice .
It 's been horrible because I do n't like needles at all .
And he likes the needles , God help him !
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| like |
to like flavor |
209 |
V:obj:N |
But the more I drink of it the better I like the flavor .
But the more I drink of it , the better I like the flavor .
If the flavor of onion is liked , a slice may be chopped fine and added to the dressing .
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| like |
to like jew |
209 |
V:obj:N |
So , how can we imagine it being possible for any Arab or Muslim to like the Jews whose character is such ?
She cannot like a Jew best .
-- Well , child , I like your Jew and your bishop much .
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| like |
to like clash |
209 |
V:obj:N |
" I should not like a clash with the gringos -- pardon , Se�ors ; I speak of the class whom you also despise .
" And , " continued the landlord , " if they like the clash of your musicals , it may bring ye a groat or so , to help ye on your journey .
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| like |
to like streak |
207 |
V:obj:N |
The beast picked up my coat , as a dog does a bone , and disappeared with it like a streak into the black bush .
The distance was several miles , but when Red King came to the gully end he flashed out of it like a streak of red flame .
Then Husain is nobly characteristic -- I like those streaks of Moorish fire in his speeches .
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| like |
to like calf |
207 |
V:obj:N |
This wretched life seems to me contemptible , and I am weary of running after you like a calf after a cow .
" I had plenty to eat and when we went away , my Massy had a little calf that I liked so well .
" One likes one 's own calves best , oui gia !
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| like |
to like comet |
207 |
V:obj:N |
Our stars do show their excellence Not by their light , but influence ; When brighter comets , since still known Fatal to all , are liked by none .
Cow-punchers , waiting for just such manifestations of individuality , whirled after them like comets , and soon they were again in the pawing , heaving , sweltering bunch to which they belonged .
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| like |
to like hail |
207 |
V:obj:N |
" The fierceness of her passion beat upon him like sudden summer hail .
Himself in the mean time , without deliberation , sallied forth in a rage with the cavalry of his guard , who were forthwith received and royally entertained with great cannon-shot that fell upon them like hail from the high grounds on which the artillery was planted .
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| like |
to like it above thing |
207 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" " I should like it above all things !
" On the contrary , I should like it above all things .
I believe I was made for it ; I should like it above all things .
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| like |
to like witch |
206 |
V:obj:N |
She sat up in bed clutching the sheets right up under her chin and staring before her like a little witch .
" " Oh , is n't he like the witches on the broom-sticks in our fairy-book , Olly ?
As I run at her an ' fell hard , she drew de runnin ' knot tight an ' danced aroun ' me like a fat witch , windin ' me all up in de rope .
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| like |
to like cork |
206 |
V:obj:N |
" blurted Joses , the picturesque phrase popping out of him like a cork from a heady bottle of champagne .
After it is taken from the tree and has undergone due preparation , it appears in our shops and houses under the name of cork " " I should like to see how they get it , " said Malcolm .
Here , boy , fetch up that ere demi John of Madeira , and for aught I know , the young officer might like a drop o ' long cork ; bring us some tumblers , and one o ' they claret bottles out o ' the starboard after locker .
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| like |
to like speck |
206 |
V:obj:N |
Cross 'd like a speck the blaze of setting day MS .
I should have had more respect for the author 's opinion if he had liked that vital speck , Raegen .
" It is , " answered the laird ; " do n't you see the eagle himself like a black speck hovering above it ?
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| like |
to like warrior |
205 |
V:obj:N |
He is handsome , clever , and a cunning warrior , liked by all and eventually is Elaine 's love .
'Perhaps you do n't like us warriors as a body ?
We like warriors .
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| like |
to like actor |
205 |
V:obj:N |
And I like actors and those kind of people .
Bogart liked the late hours actors kept , and enjoyed the attention an actor got on stage .
The other actor I really like is River Phoenix , " she added .
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| like |
to like writer |
204 |
V:obj:N |
Is that the way you like writers to be described ( I do not care for it much myself ) ?
We need not leave off liking the merely pretty writers , such as Miss Procter and Longfellow .
The writer Herman Bang liked to spend time in Norðtoftir .
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| like |
to like dad |
204 |
V:obj:N |
Oh , I know my dad is not liked in this cattle country .
" Dad always liked to see me wear nice clothes .
" I would n't like Dad to come and find it not ready !
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| like |
to like jim |
204 |
V:obj:N |
But the blacksmith 's wife liked Jim , and could not let Jane carry off honors so easily .
The only reason I like Jim at all is I like a good beating once in a while .
She liked Jim , but the need to make talk was spoiling everything .
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| like |
to like locust |
203 |
V:obj:N |
They came upon almost a forest of chestnut-trees , and fell upon them like locusts .
Here the people , struck with astonishment and dismay at this great horde of hungry people who arrived among them like locusts , fell upon them with the sword , and great numbers fell .
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| like |
to like bird of prey |
203 |
V:obj:N |
He is thin , old and emaciated , clean-shaven , firm-lipped , and looks startlingly like a bird of prey .
There we intended to rest our horses for a time ; but no sooner had we entered the district than the English column came pouring into it like so many birds of prey .
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| like |
to like tramp |
202 |
V:obj:N |
Now , most dogs do n't like tramps , so I thought I 'd have that sort of dog in the farm play .
I 'd rather like a long tramp , and no more talking just at present except with myself .
" I should like a good tramp this morning after that hot room .
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| like |
to like fawn |
202 |
V:obj:N |
I like the fawn , but I believe the material will spot .
How like a fawn !
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| like |
to like socrates |
202 |
V:obj:N |
I should like to have been a Greek and fought the Persians , and then have come home and written tragedies , or else have been listened to by everybody for my wisdom , like Socrates , and have died a grand death .
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| like |
to like torch |
201 |
V:obj:N |
" Give me your hand , if you like , or use your torch .
We had devised for ourselves many useless follies , but Thou hast placed Thy word before me like a torch , and Thou hast touched my heart , in order that I may hold in abomination all other merits save those of Jesus .
Mother , give me your hand , give me yours too -- Be not so loth ; some good thing I must do ; But lay your torches by , I like not them ; Come , come , deliver them unto your men : Give me your hands .
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| like |
to like expression |
201 |
V:obj:N |
We would like the expression for a real gas chemical potential to be similar to the one for an ideal gas .
Then she looked straight at me and I liked her expression .
In particular I do not like Florence Aylmer 's expression .
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| like |
to like crab |
200 |
V:obj:N |
You know your grandsire likes crabs .
" If I had to jump in and pull you out every time you wanted to catch a crab I would n't like it .
" " I should like just a tiny bit more crab , " simpered Dray .
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| like |
to like fashion |
200 |
V:obj:N |
Eh , but I would n't like that fashion of living !
If I did not , they would expose me in a fashion I should not like .
The Reverend Stephen was smiling , but in a fashion she did not quite like .
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| like |
to like clockwork |
200 |
V:obj:N |
All human activity passes to and fro before him like clockwork ; he alone creates freely from his inmost self the undreamed of , the untreated .
He is a splendid sabreur -- kills as many men to his own sword as I could myself , when it comes to a hand-to-hand fight ; breaks horses in like magic ; rides them like the wind ; has a hawk 's eye over open country ; obeys like clockwork ; what more can you want ?
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| like |
to like hunting |
200 |
V:obj:N |
It seems almost like hunting for a needle in a haystack .
Do n't you like the hunting here ?
When a bunch of quail rise out of a cornfield they 're a mighty tempting sight , if a man likes hunting .
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| like |
to like as pea |
199 |
V:prep:N |
And I found the same steamship , or else another as like her as two peas , lying at anchor not far from us .
" I suppose there is no vegetable so well liked as peas .
When he was advised from London that his lease had expired , and that the house , with some others as like it as two peas , was to be demolished , he was surprisingly distressed .
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| like |
to like appearance |
199 |
V:obj:N |
Indeed , I am going to frankly confess , I also like your appearance .
And a woman likes a good appearance in a man .
The most dissolute man likes the appearance of virtue .
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| like |
to like strawberry |
199 |
V:obj:N |
Of the canned things I liked the strawberries best , and ate many , though they tasted somewhat of the tin .
Hazel began to realize that he liked Strawberry .
" Would you like some strawberries , little girl ?
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| like |
to like butter |
199 |
V:obj:N |
He liked the bread and ( the ) butter .
Johnny , darling , would n't you like some additional butter on your toast ?
Maybe I 've always liked butter , too , without knowing that I do .
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| like |
to like lizard |
199 |
V:obj:N |
'I should like to save a kingdom , ' said Elsie , 'and I like lizards .
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| like |
to like balloon |
199 |
V:obj:N |
He 's got a head on him like an observation balloon and a tongue that feels like a pussycat 's back .
" I do n't like that old balloon !
I like a balloon , do n't you , Flossie ?
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| like |
to like heroine |
198 |
V:obj:N |
You may perhaps like the heroine , as she is almost too good for me .
But above all , I like its heroine .
You 're up here yourself like a heroine ; you 're perched in your tower or what do you call it ?
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| like |
to like little boy |
198 |
V:obj:N |
And he liked the little boy , and the little boy liked him .
This show is beginning to get under way , and they do n't like their little boys in blue to have family troubles .
And we like little boys .
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| like |
to like member of family |
197 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" He seems just like a member of the family .
" She seems almost like a member of the family , by now .
CHAPTER XVIII A Night of Adventure It will be seen from the events recorded in the last chapter that Everard , while liking the various members of the Greville family , had taken a great prejudice against Ernesto Trapani .
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| like |
to like tempest |
197 |
V:obj:N |
Turn thy force loose like a tempest , and roll on thy army like a whirlwind , over this mountain of trouble and confusion .
The mighty host of spirits swept over them like a tempest , and returned some time afterwards , as they could neither find the rose-bush nor anything else remarkable .
It was one of our dreadful days of rain , the sound of it like a great waterfall or like a tempest of wind blowing in the forest ; and there came to our door two runaway black boys seeking work .
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| like |
to like foreigner |
197 |
V:obj:N |
They do n't like foreigners , especially ones that play on computers !
One might like foreigners , but they were outsiders .
They just happen to have a curious complex : they do n't like foreigners with guns in their country .
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| like |
to like member of family |
197 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" He seems just like a member of the family .
" She seems almost like a member of the family , by now .
CHAPTER XVIII A Night of Adventure It will be seen from the events recorded in the last chapter that Everard , while liking the various members of the Greville family , had taken a great prejudice against Ernesto Trapani .
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| like |
to like above thing |
197 |
V:prep:N |
He liked that above all things in a woman .
Down stairs a long parlor and a dining room , with a basement kitchen which Bridget declared she liked above all things .
" " I should like it above all things !
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| like |
to like roman |
196 |
V:obj:N |
General Ignorance : The Romans liked to wear sandals .
History Precursors It is said that the Roman emperor Nero liked to watch gladiator fights with emeralds .
I should not think him particularly like an ancient Roman , except in his obstinacy .
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| like |
to like moses |
196 |
V:obj:N |
Much as he loved to cut capers and play tricks on others , Moses never liked to have any one get a laugh on him .
" Why were we all like Moses to-day ?
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| like |
to like simplicity |
196 |
V:obj:N |
Very primitive , but we like that enforced simplicity .
You happen to please me very much this evening ; I like the simplicity of the white dress .
The chief was gratified by the friendship of Hannibal 's kinsman , and liked the frank simplicity of his manner .
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| like |
to like thet |
196 |
V:obj:N |
One thet you like well enough to marry ?
Did n't it like the purty pitcher thet its old husband bought for it ?
She 'll like thet .
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| like |
to like nigger |
195 |
V:obj:N |
De dunderin ' nigger liked to kill me .
Goliath shuffles after it like a forlorn little nigger in the wake of a circus .
" I do n't like smart niggers .
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| like |
to like paradise |
194 |
V:obj:N |
" If the pathway through life was ever thus tranquil and serene , " thought he , " and if the eye caught only such visions of beauty and grace as are now before me , how like Paradise would this earth seem !
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| like |
to like bead |
194 |
V:obj:N |
The axis of reality runs solely through the egotistic places -- they are strung upon it like so many beads .
Ethel likes these beads , too .
He liked to pierce their flesh with the needle , and then to draw them down the long thread , like beads .
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| like |
to like feeling |
194 |
V:obj:N |
You like the feeling of the water against your skin .
He once told a reporter , I like the feeling of fear .
In fact , she liked the feeling of the cool water .
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| like |
to like novel |
194 |
V:obj:N |
You were telling me why I liked Brown 's novels .
Dimitri has a slight Russian accent , and likes old western novels .
As a general thing we do not like theological novels written from foregone conclusions .
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| like |
to like lunatic |
194 |
V:obj:N |
-- which would be quite to your credit , -- for gadzooks , I like a lunatic !
" " You see , I do n't like lunatics ; they produce a singular effect upon me ; they do n't interest me at all .
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| like |
to like ribbon |
193 |
V:obj:N |
She loved the feel of the soft , fine materials and she liked the crisp hair ribbons and dainty shoes .
" Look here , Millicent , should you like these cherry ribbons ?
We had left the village far behind , and the wide high road stretched before us like a brown ribbon , sloping gently up and down the grassy slopes .
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| like |
to like peach |
192 |
V:obj:N |
" I like peaches a great deal the best .
" I do hope your mother will like these peaches , " he said .
" " I do n't like peaches either !
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| like |
to like dis |
192 |
V:obj:N |
You like live like dis alone with ole fa'der , eh ?
Give my name right flat , it 's George Briggs ; giving it round , it like dis , George McDuffie Briggs .
He is a great man -- I dunno not ; but he spik at me like dis , 'Is dere sick , and cripple , and stay in-bed people here dat ca n't get up ?
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| like |
to like new york |
192 |
V:obj:N |
The fact is , I do not like New York .
For some sick reason , I really like New York .
But I think I should like New York .
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| like |
to like hog |
192 |
V:obj:N |
He liked hogs , cattle and people .
" Sounds like -- like hogs grunting .
They do not , said the man ; they buy them to sell again ; and they like hogs fed on oatmeal best , because they are the fattest .
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| like |
to like bloodhound |
191 |
V:obj:N |
Scarcely had he turned the corner of the Rue de la Juiverie when the boy rushed after him like a bloodhound on full scent .
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| like |
to like meat |
191 |
V:obj:N |
With food abundant and at choice , I do not like bear meat and will not eat beans .
But then I like fish ; and the fast was made for men who like meat .
It likes meat and does n't like to fight .
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| like |
to like love |
191 |
V:obj:N |
It likes love , but not all the time .
Mrs. Marsett liked love , blood , and adventure .
But you yourself , Marthe : would n't you like love to fill a greater place in your life ?
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| like |
to like leech |
191 |
V:obj:N |
They instantly fastened on him like so many leeches .
He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip , and hangs there like a leech , till the mighty brute is worried to death .
" " Yes , and hung onto me like a leech of a Jew ever since , " the man muttered .
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| like |
to like fishing |
190 |
V:obj:N |
He liked fishing , golfing , and horseback riding .
The peasants were occupied with agriculture ; they fed cattle , grew vegetables , and liked fishing and hunting .
She never knew she had a bite till Tom told her , but she liked fishing very much .
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| like |
to like turtle |
190 |
V:obj:N |
We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells .
The turtle I should have liked , but how Mr. Pitt is to be dressed I cannot tell .
Turtle Buster says that he would like a pet turtle in this episode , something he finally got in " Prison Break-In " .
|
| like |
to like shower |
189 |
V:obj:N |
I do n't like showers , but the bathroom was the only place in the apartment where I could lock a door on myself .
Truth , or whatever truth he found , fell upon him like a bursting shower , and he a poor tradesman at his work .
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| like |
to like perfume |
189 |
V:obj:N |
Perhaps he does n't like that perfume you always have about .
" Why should I use perfume I do n't like ?
" Why do n't you like the perfume I use ?
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| like |
to like jelly |
187 |
V:obj:N |
Then he said : " I likes currant jelly on my duck .
He certainly liked jelly .
" Ben likes my jelly .
|
| like |
to like curtain |
186 |
V:obj:N |
For an hour or two the sky might stretch above us like a vast blue curtain flecked with tiny masses of snow-white clouds .
But this screen of Cherokee roses hangs before me like a curtain , shedding fragrance from every fold .
And would n't you like some curtains ?
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| like |
to like dinner |
186 |
V:obj:N |
After that first experience , I liked the big men 's dinners very much .
Andrew liked his dinner to be comfortable , good , and in plenty .
He liked a good dinner , and had always a smile ready for a young and attractive face .
|
| like |
to like poem |
186 |
V:obj:N |
Goethe is also said to have liked the poem .
Let me know how you like my poem .
Now I should like the poem " continued in our next .
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| like |
to like laugh |
186 |
V:obj:N |
The unseen laughed a nice laugh that Peggy liked .
The man gave a laugh -- a little short , hard laugh that David did not like .
Corp , would you like a good laugh ?
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| like |
to like french |
185 |
V:obj:N |
The French , liked to think that their king was the most splendid monarch and the greatest gentleman in Europe .
" I think he likes Miss French , " said Dorothy , in a whisper .
" I never liked the French all my days , " said his Lordship , " but now I hate them .
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| like |
to like riding |
185 |
V:obj:N |
She likes riding , reading , swimming and running .
Glen Murphy supports West Ham United and also likes horse riding .
You like my riding and the portrait---- " " I can judge your riding .
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| like |
to like america |
185 |
V:obj:N |
If you liked America you would speak in its praise .
As far as I 've gone , I like America and the Americans .
She wanted to know if they liked America and appearing in movies .
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| like |
to like ass |
184 |
V:obj:N |
Do not you see the beacon is unlit , and you sit there like so many asses ?
" Well , Simmons , just as much as you can like an ass .
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| like |
to like gleam |
184 |
V:obj:N |
We do not like that gleam in your eyes .
The lights of the fishing fleet flashed by them like the gleam of switch-lights , seen from an express train .
It may be I did him an injustice , but I liked not the avaricious gleam in his little slits of eyes .
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| like |
to like sunlight |
183 |
V:obj:N |
They do not like the hot sunlight and largely feed at twilight and at night .
It was clear that the cat liked the sunlight .
When he drank , the liquid flooded through him like sunlight .
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| like |
to like writing |
183 |
V:obj:N |
But do you know , Beth , I do not like your writings ?
He likes writing , peace and quiet , sunshine and new places .
Although he likes books and even likes writing , Hoover makes no claims to authorship himself .
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| like |
to like today |
182 |
V:obj:N |
Something happened today that you will like to hear .
Friend said today that he would like set-aside to be much more environmentally based .
Before the Civil War there were no girls in offices , but today they like being secretaries and typists just as girls in America do .
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| like |
to like cup of coffee |
182 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But do n't you think you would like a cup of coffee and a nice piece of toast ?
Would n't you like a cup of coffee ?
The Master would like a cup of coffee .
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| like |
to like john |
182 |
V:obj:N |
We sort of kept moving to the places John liked to go to enjoy a quiet beer .
John liked to think of homes and of trees as people .
Reverend Parris begins to panic , because John was liked by many in the village .
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| like |
to like candy |
182 |
V:obj:N |
And can you tell me why you like candy ?
He likes Finnish candies , good food , ketchup and movies .
Next to books , Dorian liked candy .
|
| like |
to like gem |
182 |
V:obj:N |
I like gems with fire and color in 'em .
But though the dragon is afraid of iron , he likes precious gems and k'ung-ts'ing ( " The Stone of Darkness " ) and is fond of roasted swallows .
The wild wizard-work Of the forest at last open 'd sharp , o'er the fork Of a savage ravine , and behind the black stems Of the last trees , whose leaves in the light gleam 'd like gems , Broke the broad moon above the voluminous Rock-chaos , -- the Hecate of that Tartarus !
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| like |
to like cup of coffee |
182 |
V:obj+prep:N |
But do n't you think you would like a cup of coffee and a nice piece of toast ?
Would n't you like a cup of coffee ?
The Master would like a cup of coffee .
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| like |
to like mirage |
181 |
V:obj:N |
How like a mirage .
" They plunged into a pine wood and climbed for another two hours , the summit always vanishing before them like a mirage .
' They plunged into a pine wood and climbed for another two hours , the summit always vanishing before them like a mirage .
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| like |
to like grandfather |
181 |
V:obj:N |
You should n't say that you do n't like your grandfather .
They had liked the grandfather better , and had become stolidly accustomed to the grandson 's virtues .
For my own part , I believe I should have liked my reprobate maternal grandfather , but his conduct was certainly very vexatious .
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| like |
to like madness |
181 |
V:obj:N |
His need , and his shame of need , weighed on him like a madness .
She was daunted for a moment , but she rejoiced in the conviction that she was going to like this madness of multiform energy .
But I like my madness .
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| like |
to like straw |
181 |
V:obj:N |
She seemed to like cheese straws .
" I never eat , because I am stuffed full already , and I like my nice clean straw better than I do food .
While we like straws upon a stream , Are drifting faster than we deem , To that unknown , that untried shore , Where days and nights will be no more , And where time 's surging tide will be , Absorbed in vast eternity .
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| like |
to like namesake |
180 |
V:obj:N |
Kuroko The are the Shiba House 's servants who like their namesakes " set up " the scenery during the Shinkengers ' transformation .
|
| like |
to like arrangement |
180 |
V:obj:N |
Maybe your father would n't like the arrangement , anyway .
Of course , if you do n't like the arrangement you must write and say so .
You do n't seem to like our domestic arrangements .
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| like |
to like spaniel |
179 |
V:obj:N |
Well , I liked the spaniel ; it was a perfect beauty !
The woman heartily scorned and spit upon her husband , who fawned upon her like a spaniel .
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| like |
to like beetle |
179 |
V:obj:N |
But the woman liked her little black beetle best .
But you used to like beetles and things .
You cannot expect us to like people who do not suit us : any more than you can expect us to like a beetle or a spider .
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| like |
to like leviathan |
179 |
V:obj:N |
He likes to see the brave young gentlemen , a-going to and fro in their ships , like Leviathan , and taking of their pastime therein .
Passengers on Amsterdam-bound ships that loomed above us like leviathans , stared down at our little craft and the bluff-browed barge we towed .
Down the hill , spent and disabled engines were returning from the front , and while they took sidings , fresh engines , close-coupled , steamed slowly like leviathans past them up the hill .
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| like |
to like stag |
179 |
V:obj:N |
This ought to be as good a stalking country as the Scottish Highlands , provided the people can be got to like " stalking " stags better than landlords and agents .
" SECTION CXVII " Rama said , 'The blame is mine , O father , that like a stag in the wood , thou hast been shot dead with arrows , by those mean and stupid wretches -- the sons of Kartavirya .
' " SECTION CXVII " 'Rama said , " The blame is mine , O father , that like a stag in the wood , thou hast been shot dead with arrows , by those mean and stupid wretches -- the sons of Kartavirya .
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| like |
to like shape |
179 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , the lake is beautiful , and I like the shape of those hills .
The humped shapes of the low yellow rocks showed themselves faintly like shapes of beasts asleep .
No ; I can mould him like wax into any shape I like .
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| like |
to like greeks |
178 |
V:obj:N |
He likes the Greeks and the Romans , questions society , and is interested in world affairs .
The English and French fought over her like the Greeks and Romans fought over Helen of Troy !
" I like the Greeks , who are plausible rascals , -- with all the Turkish vices , without their courage .
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| like |
to like daughter |
178 |
V:obj:N |
Be as proud and unpleasant as you like to my daughter , but leave me alone .
In your absence she seems almost like a daughter to me .
She has been with me now for about eight years , and seems almost like my own daughter .
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| like |
to like englishmen |
178 |
V:obj:N |
Natives of India do not like Englishmen to marry their women .
Goethe says somewhere that he likes Englishmen because English fools are the most thoroughgoing of fools .
Personally , I like Englishmen better than Jews , and always associate with them .
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| like |
to like dickens |
178 |
V:obj:N |
Dickens used to stay there apparently , and Edith liked Dickens .
My old man 's missin ' me like the dickens , he writes .
" Tell me why you like Dickens , when nobody reads him in these days except ourselves .
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| like |
to like swarm of bee |
177 |
V:obj+prep:N |
They will set on him like a swarm of bees ; and as they ca n't all make honey of him " -- " They will sting him to death .
On our landing from the boat , the crowd thronged about us like a swarm of bees ; we were seized , pulled , pushed , carried , dragged , and all but lifted in the air by the clamorous multitude .
I said " God save the King ; " whereupon they fell upon me like a swarm of bees , armed with a thousand pins , and so pinched , and pricked , and pulled me , that there was n't a square inch of my skin that was n't as full of holes as a ten-year old pin-cushion .
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| like |
to like sweet |
177 |
V:obj:N |
He likes all the sweets as if they were so many girls .
That a child likes or craves sweets is the usual excuse of an indulgent parent .
It is a matter of common observation that those who like sweets usually do not like alcohol .
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| like |
to like mary |
177 |
V:obj:N |
Queen Mary always liked to have young girls about her .
Mary liked to go to the store with him .
Next to Kitty , Sir John certainly liked plain little Mary best .
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| like |
to like hurricane |
177 |
V:obj:N |
" I do n't like damn great hurricanes descending on me out of nowhere .
Around him like a hurricane of hail The pinioned shafts with aim unerring sped , Bearing dark death upon their feathery wings .
" says he , " I see the Giant of the Hundred Hills coming tearing after us like a harvest hurricane .
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| like |
to like swarm of bee |
177 |
V:obj+prep:N |
They will set on him like a swarm of bees ; and as they ca n't all make honey of him " -- " They will sting him to death .
On our landing from the boat , the crowd thronged about us like a swarm of bees ; we were seized , pulled , pushed , carried , dragged , and all but lifted in the air by the clamorous multitude .
I said " God save the King ; " whereupon they fell upon me like a swarm of bees , armed with a thousand pins , and so pinched , and pricked , and pulled me , that there was n't a square inch of my skin that was n't as full of holes as a ten-year old pin-cushion .
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| like |
to like sponge |
177 |
V:obj:N |
Shell-smoke opened out among them like a sponge thrown into the water .
O , he look 'd somewhat like a sponge in that pink 'd yellow doublet , methought ; well , make much of him ; I see he was never born to ride upon a mule .
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| like |
to like mortal |
176 |
V:obj:N |
By-and-by in the little household the gas was lighted , the curtains drawn , and the two lovers fetched in for tea , to behave themselves as much as they could like ordinary mortals , in general society , for the rest of the evening .
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| like |
to like miracle |
176 |
V:obj:N |
The way old things have been put aside and the new customs adopted seems almost like a miracle .
It seems almost like a miracle finding an English lady here .
" I shall be better directly , but it seems almost like a miracle .
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| like |
to like adventure |
175 |
V:obj:N |
My father would like the adventure too , I 'm sure .
Would you like a real , genuine -- bloodcurdling adventure ?
The birds soon become attached to their masters and seem to like the adventure of the trenches .
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| like |
to like driving |
175 |
V:obj:N |
And then I like country driving , and the hunting in the fall .
" I am glad , because I like the driving , " said Norton .
I like the driving .
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| like |
to like sound of word |
174 |
V:obj+prep:N |
She liked the busy sound of the word , too .
And I like the sound of the word .
" I -- I like the sound of the words .
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| like |
to like plant |
174 |
V:obj:N |
They like plants with long trailing leaves to hide under .
I hope so - I really like my plants .
If you do n't like nuclear plants , though , this is definitely a treasure-trove of talking points .
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| like |
to like blow |
174 |
V:obj:N |
The clerk 's voice struck on him like a blow .
My own words were hurled back upon me by memory and fell upon me like blows , so had they fallen upon her .
This thought fell upon him like a blow .
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| like |
to like sound of word |
174 |
V:obj+prep:N |
She liked the busy sound of the word , too .
And I like the sound of the word .
" I -- I like the sound of the words .
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| like |
to like shuttle |
173 |
V:obj:N |
Some involve StAR transferring cholesterol itself like a shuttle .
Lord , pity me , for I am little , An elf of mischief and of mettle , That can like ony wabster 's shuttle , Jink there or here , Though scarce as lang 's a gude kale-whittle , I 'm unco queer .
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| like |
to like in life |
172 |
V:prep:N |
Do n't you like me in your life ?
Nobody ever did n't like me in my life , an ' I 'm seven .
Sit and write down what you like or love in life and then what you want to change .
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| like |
to like impudence |
171 |
V:obj:N |
You may like his impudence , and call it modesty ; but my son-in-law , madam , must have very different qualifications .
Well , I like her impudence !
" " Upon my word , I like your impudence !
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| like |
to like spring |
171 |
V:obj:N |
He liked this time of the year almost as much as he liked spring .
" Sometimes I think that autumn is the finest season of the year , and then again I like spring better .
" Every spring I like to get out and poke around through these hills where folks as a rule do n't go .
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| like |
to like oak |
171 |
V:obj:N |
But she liked the old oak near the trail the best of all .
I really do n't know which liked the great oak best , Harry or his grandfather .
He likes de oak , an ' de poplum , an ' de scaly-bark .
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| like |
to like breeze |
171 |
V:obj:N |
Murmurs and whispers passed by her like the breeze .
The flowers in the garden seemed to like the breezes from the sea , for their colors were glowing , and their perfume sweet .
" " I am hearty enough , thank Heaven , " he said , " but I do n't like this breeze .
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| like |
to like apparition |
171 |
V:obj:N |
So wonderful his expedition , When you have not the least suspicion Hes with you like an apparition .
" He stood before us like a miraculous apparition in the domain of art , " wrote one of the critics .
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| like |
to like garment |
170 |
V:obj:N |
These invest the rotting tissues liked an elastic garment , but are always in a state of movement .
My doubts and disbeliefs slipped from me like a loosely fitting garment .
His nervousness dropped from him like a garment , however , when he spoke .
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| like |
to like film |
170 |
V:obj:N |
You must like stories , you must like seeing films yourself .
The films Gloria liked were about love and people singing to each other .
In my estimation they were determined not to like the film .
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| like |
to like no one |
169 |
V:obj:N |
Talk of the theatre was normally avoided in front of Bo-Bo because no one liked to suffer the avalanche of tears that flowed when memories of her prematurely terminated career overwhelmed the onetime actress .
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| like |
to like silver |
169 |
V:obj:N |
They like silver and have skilled workmen who make the white metal into beads and buttons and various trinkets for personal adornment .
But I should like to see your sword out , and shining in the sun like burnished silver .
And I like silver and gold ; and servants , and silk dresses , and ice-cream , and pictures , and big houses , and big mirrors , and all the rest of it .
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| like |
to like mastiff |
168 |
V:obj:N |
-- said , " Do you know , I think I rather like mastiffs ?
" Muttering and mumbling , he came rolling after me like an angry and rather ill-conditioned mastiff .
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| like |
to like bride |
168 |
V:obj:N |
One would therefore like the bride to be free from such inconveniences as will drag her down mentally .
If the groom and his family like the bride they can take the silver bucket as a token that they like the bride .
It is an honor to be called friend by a woman who like the Bride of the Nile .
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| like |
to like bulldog |
168 |
V:obj:N |
Whenever I go near him he thnapth at me like a bulldog .
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| like |
to like arab |
168 |
V:obj:N |
How like an Arab !
India would appear to be the direction in which to look for colonists , but it is an unfortunate fact that the Arab does not like the Indian and the Indian does not like the Arab .
II Of course I do n't assert that he had never suffered for his convictions at all , but I am fully convinced that he might have gone on lecturing on his Arabs as long as he liked , if he had only given the necessary explanations .
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| like |
to like violet |
167 |
V:obj:N |
Children , when you go to play , Look beneath the hedge to-day : -- Mamma likes violets .
" " But you liked the violets better ?
I like violets because of their sweet smell , " said Annie .
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| like |
to like ball of fire |
167 |
V:obj:N |
He turned round on me like a wild beast disturbed from its prey , -- his teeth set , his hand lifted , his eyes like balls of fire .
Again we stopped , when there he was , standing on the deck -- eight feet high he looked at least -- rubbing his eyes , which glared out at us like balls of fire .
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| like |
to like row |
167 |
V:obj:N |
He likes a street row , I do n't .
As she had told a Sydney audience , she " rather liked a good row .
They came back , and politely asked the ladies whether they would like a row .
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| like |
to like blind man |
167 |
V:obj:N |
" Do n't you like " Aldegunda " ( Blind Man and Talking Dog ) ?
Opportunity was knocking at my gate , a giant young commonwealth was struggling in the throes of political revolution , while I wandered through it all like a blind man led by a child .
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| like |
to like petal |
167 |
V:obj:N |
Thrushes use mud , the bearded tit likes flower petals .
Nor did he know it when the walls of Cyclopean masonry bulged and opened about him like the petals of a flowering lily .
within sound of the Fountain of Youth whose waters tint the skin till the whole body glows softly like the petal of a rose -- there , alas !
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| like |
to like brook |
166 |
V:obj:N |
In other words , she should have liked Brook if she had not had good cause to dislike him .
You like brooks .
Initially the Aller flows rather like a canalised brook in a northwestern direction through low hills and intensively farmed arable fields .
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| like |
to like lobster |
165 |
V:obj:N |
I like lobsters best , but chickens is goot too .
Bobbie and I are the ones who do n't like lobster .
" I do n't like lobster , " Eleanor pouted ; " and , what 's more , I do n't like Mr. Pfingst .
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| like |
to like napoleon |
165 |
V:obj:N |
It seemed to me a wonderfully good thing of its kind , and I liked Napoleon 's having lodged in it when his troops occupied Villeneuve .
Seizing it with promptness and daring , so characteristic of the man , he , like Napoleon at Austerlitz , when he saw the Russians passing by his front with their flanks exposed , rushed upon them like a wild beast upon its prey , turning the exposed column back upon its rear .
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| like |
to like sand |
165 |
V:obj:N |
The pandanus likes the coral sand , and is in appearance a tree out of a dream .
But I almost think the children liked the sands on the shore as well as the gardens , though they loved both .
Sand liked to master a reserved , artistic nature such as that of the Polish musician .
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| like |
to like poison |
164 |
V:obj:N |
I love them saps the way I like rat poison .
I do n't like poison .
And the creepy fear , the haunting terror known to all northern creatures , man or beast , crept into her like a subtle poison .
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| like |
to like tidal wave |
164 |
V:obj:N |
Canada with her young , red-blooded vigour swept into him like a tidal wave of open sea into a sluggish , marshy creek .
She hung nervelessly in his straining arms , mute and helpless to withstand him , while his passion swept over her like a tidal wave , submerging her utterly .
" And with shrieks of mock terror they turned their horses ' heads and raced down the valley , the fog after them like a phantom tidal wave ; but they outstripped it , and sprang from their horses at the corridor of Los Quervos with shouts of triumph and lightly blown kisses to the enemy .
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| like |
to like shakespeare |
164 |
V:obj:N |
Though they liked Shakespeare , they seem to have wished his plays to conform to these preferences .
I think it is because I taught her to like Shakespeare when she was very young .
Who likes Johnson , and who likes Shakespeare ?
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| like |
to like rat in hole |
163 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" I canna lie here like a rat in a hole a ' my days , " said Dan .
You will find , you bloodthirsty beast , that my Emperor has long arms , and though you lie here like a rat in its hole , the time will come when he will tear you out of it , and you and your vermin will perish together .
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| like |
to like greyhound |
163 |
V:obj:N |
He darted after them like a greyhound .
" How is't that you can like a greyhound go , Merry as if that naught had happen 'd , burn ye !
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| like |
to like native |
163 |
V:obj:N |
Her relations , to begin with , were not at all the kind of natives I liked .
He wants society , and he does n't like too many natives .
Then I told him affectionately that I liked natives , that they were fine fellows and better men than the dirty whites round about .
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| like |
to like rat in hole |
163 |
V:obj+prep:N |
" I canna lie here like a rat in a hole a ' my days , " said Dan .
You will find , you bloodthirsty beast , that my Emperor has long arms , and though you lie here like a rat in its hole , the time will come when he will tear you out of it , and you and your vermin will perish together .
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| like |
to like colt |
163 |
V:obj:N |
' " I like this Hamilton colt the minute I gets my lamps on him .
They narrowed their selection to two yearling colts they liked but , unable to decide which one to buy , they flipped a coin and were the successful bidder on Elocutionist .
At the auction , Cashman and his trainer , Paul Adwell , narrowed their selection to two yearling colts they liked .
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| like |
to like adder |
162 |
V:obj:N |
" From the tone in which this was spoken , John saw the necessity of acquiescence " I did but jest , " he said ; " and you turn upon me like so many adders !
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| like |
to like soul |
162 |
V:obj:N |
Lucky , you liked the soul of the story .
The early skinheads also liked soul , rocksteady and early reggae .
The Thing which had threatened her in the night seemed to her now like the soul of this dark spirit in the trees .
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| like |
to like beacon |
162 |
V:obj:N |
The sublime faith of the child moved before him like a beacon .
" Then a curtain of thick rain partly hid the warfare , the lightning still rioting through it like a beacon of battle .
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| like |
to like tom |
161 |
V:obj:N |
This is a specimen of the way Tom liked to be written to .
He liked Tom and let him have the room for a dollar a month .
He liked Tom as a friend , but did not dare to trust him with so important a secret .
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| like |
to like 'as |
161 |
V:obj:N |
' 'As you like , my dear , as you like ' replied the Jew .
' 'As you like , ' replied the latter , pressing down the second bullet .
' 'As you like , ' said Mutimer lightly .
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| like |
to like beef |
161 |
V:obj:N |
And I know you would like a little fresh beef , Neddy ; a change of diet is good for the health .
I 'll be bound you 'd like some beef and eggs .
However , the Boche likes our beef .
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| like |
to like goose |
161 |
V:obj:N |
How would you like some green goose , with apple-sauce , sweet-potatoes , and succotash ?
" But I do n't like roast goose , " said Guy , pouting .
He says he likes to see me get mad , and I ... just like a goose , go right straight ahead and get mad for him .
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| like |
to like silk |
160 |
V:obj:N |
Why do n't you wear the swishy blue silk I always liked on you ?
She taught ye to like soft silks and shining satins an ' to look down on the poor , an ' the shabby .
" " You said you liked the blue silk when I was buying it .
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| like |
to like dark |
160 |
V:obj:N |
I 'll own I do n't like the dark .
He does not like the dark .
" No ; I do n't like the dark .
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| like |
to like dish |
160 |
V:obj:N |
If the king liked a dish , he would yell " Yes !
Jocelyn Dimbleby does great things with the sort of dishes I like .
Napoleon reportedly liked the dish and ( having won the battle ) considered it lucky .
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| like |
to like it of course |
159 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Then you would n't like it , of course .
Nobody likes it , of course , but a woman can generally get out of it .
If you do n't like it , of course we wo n't come .
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| like |
to like carpet |
159 |
V:obj:N |
He answered , I should have liked the most beautiful and finest carpet .
Bella liked carpets her feet could sink into , she had once said .
Do n't you like nice , flowery Brissels carpets , honey ?
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| like |
to like traveller |
159 |
V:obj:N |
Because the Emperor of China , who reigns over it , does not like travellers to go there .
I know that nobody likes the travellers .
Treeby could have left him there , and the traveller might have remained a week , told all he had seen , and as much more as he liked .
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| like |
to like 'n |
159 |
V:obj:N |
Oh , he likes her more 'n I do .
Yes , I do , 'n ' I 'd like to kill him !
Strange he do n't hear -- 'n ' I do n't like to holler no louder .
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| like |
to like fairyland |
159 |
V:obj:N |
" Is n't it like Fairyland !
" Is n't it like Fairyland ?
If Chesterton is a dangerous Romantic who likes Fairyland , at least Shaw is a dangerous eugenist who wants a super-man , and I am not sure that the fairies of Chesterton are not more useful than the ethics of Shaw ; there is no doubt that they are less grown up .
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| like |
to like thinking |
158 |
V:obj:N |
The actor said " I like the psychology , and I like the thinking that went into the episode as a viewer .
Taiheki type 2 also likes thinking , but often gets stuck when trying to understand thngs with their own words .
137 confusion People do not like thinking .
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| like |
to like plato |
158 |
V:obj:N |
I like people who like Plato .
At times the Divine enthusiasm causes Philo , like many a Jewish saint and like his master Plato , to scorn all bodily limitations and recommend " insensibility " ( ) by which he means that man should crush his physical desires and repress his feelings .
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| like |
to like sack |
158 |
V:obj:N |
" " Then , for the love of Pete , wotcha doin ' walloping off'n her like a sack of potatoes ?
Of course it will not be necessary to say that you shot down into the middle of them like a sack of wheat because you could not help it .
The throat , stomach , and intestines , may be considered as one great gland ; which like the lacrymal sack above mentioned , neither begins nor ends in the circulation .
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| like |
to like champagne |
158 |
V:obj:N |
It used to be thought that a man who said he liked dry champagne would say anything .
" I am sure Miss Bishop and I would both like some champagne .
" Gentlemen , would n't you like a little champagne now ?
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| like |
to like pirate |
158 |
V:obj:N |
I am glad you like the children , and particularly glad you like the pirate .
" I like pirates , " she said .
He was boiling over with wrath against the French , swore at them like a pirate , and though badly wounded would have crept back if we had not prevented him .
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| like |
to like plume |
158 |
V:obj:N |
Its little cloud waves from it like a plume .
I like plumes , you know , although they is a bit extra .
" I do n't like borrowed plumes .
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| like |
to like rest of family |
157 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He loved his mother , whereas he merely liked the rest of the family .
Does this girl like to have her own way pretty well , like the rest of the family ?
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| like |
to like foam |
157 |
V:obj:N |
The sleighs dart along , the snow flying about them like silver foam .
And I am willing to come to you now , my dear , As a pigeon lets itself off from a cathedral dome To be lost in the haze of the sky , I would like to come , And be lost out of sight with you , and be gone like foam .
-- 'The hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away by the wind ; like the thin foam which is driven by the storm ; like the smoke which is scattered here and there by the whirlwind ; it passeth away like the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day .
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| like |
to like commissioner |
157 |
V:obj:N |
" I do n't like the Prince 's commissioner , Van Bronkhorst .
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| like |
to like rest of family |
157 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He loved his mother , whereas he merely liked the rest of the family .
Does this girl like to have her own way pretty well , like the rest of the family ?
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| like |
to like furnace |
156 |
V:obj:N |
How like a very furnace in his dolor !
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| like |
to like nun |
156 |
V:obj:N |
" " I thought you liked the nuns ?
She liked the nuns to feel that the call to begin a new day came to them from the hand of their Prioress .
Capsucefalo called on me the next morning , and said that if I had spoken in good faith he was sure he could get me a night with the nun in whatever place I liked , if she could count on my secrecy .
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| like |
to like dirt |
156 |
V:obj:N |
I come to you humbly enough , and you treat me like so much dirt .
Sung Ki was saying that you like dirt .
I do n't like dirt in poetry .
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| like |
to like blaze |
156 |
V:obj:N |
Cupid came in to light the lamps , and stopped to inquire if Mrs. Lightfoot would like a blaze to be started in the fireplace .
You know , there is a sort of beauty that flashes on you at first sight , like -- like the blaze of a ball-room .
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| like |
to like frenchman |
156 |
V:obj:N |
How like a Frenchman !
The Frenchman he likes to spend his money when it is there , but it hurts him in the heart to waste this money without cause .
" I never thought I could like a Frenchman so much , " she said , in all enthusiastic good faith .
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| like |
to like tail |
155 |
V:obj:N |
Do you like tails better than feet ?
Sign H. They like sad tail at end .
The greater part of our day in Milan Aunt Neta and I spent in rushing after her like its tail after a kite .
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| like |
to like ai |
155 |
V:obj:N |
Flowers , Joe -- I know 'd you 'd like 'em -- Ai n't them scrumptious ?
She has stated that she likes Ai , and some of her actions and use of powers seem to be causing the greatest amount of suffering and fear possible .
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| like |
to like benediction |
155 |
V:obj:N |
We moved in a quiet fresh and dewy , with the night wind upon us like a benediction .
The glance from his liquid brown eyes swept over them like a benediction , soothing them , rapping them about as in the mantle of a great peace .
He felt that she was at that moment -- as she often was -- silently speaking to One invisible of and for him , and the sense of it stole over him like a benediction .
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| like |
to like velvet |
154 |
V:obj:N |
But she always liked the black velvet best and so did papa and so did I. Papa said it made her neck look whiter .
I 'd like my gold-colored velvet made up .
Gabrielle thought Etienne handsome ; she would have liked to stroke the velvet of his mantle , to touch the lace of his broad collar .
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| like |
to like cut of jib |
154 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I like the cut of your jib , and you like the cut of mine ; so we shall sail very well in company .
" I liked the cut of your jib when I first saw you in that awful place the other day .
I am a very good judge of seamen , remember , and I do n't like the cut of this man 's jib .
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| like |
to like cut of jib |
154 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I like the cut of your jib , and you like the cut of mine ; so we shall sail very well in company .
" I liked the cut of your jib when I first saw you in that awful place the other day .
I am a very good judge of seamen , remember , and I do n't like the cut of this man 's jib .
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| like |
to like flavour |
154 |
V:obj:N |
The lemon may be omitted if the flavour is not liked .
Not that she thought you 'd like the flavour ?
You do n't look as if you liked the flavour of that ere nut you are crackin ' of .
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| like |
to like shade |
154 |
V:obj:N |
By the way , you appear to like the shade of the yew trees outside .
And I must say I rather like that shade of hair .
The plant likes some shade with moist , well-drained soil .
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| like |
to like breath |
154 |
V:obj:N |
EVERITT Alice , you jumped because you did n't like my breath .
It seems truly like a breath of spring to see you again .
It 's such a nice day , and I 'd like a breath of fresh air .
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| like |
to like painting |
154 |
V:obj:N |
Now , I like working on the Marvel paintings for the book covers .
She liked paintings , and I brought over my own portfolio .
He thought Thomas would like the paintings as much as he did himself .
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| like |
to like thing of life |
153 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Sure , everyone liked the good things of life .
When men are successful , they like the good things of life .
How he likes the good things of life !
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| like |
to like pudding |
153 |
V:obj:N |
He also is known to be an active swimmer and to especially like pudding .
She does n't like roast beef , and I do n't like rice pudding .
I should also like a light pudding , almost liquid , my worthy cook not being very experienced in invalid diet .
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| like |
to like bread |
153 |
V:obj:N |
Would you like some bread and jam , my boy ?
For my own part I like bread better , or bread made into toast .
Hungry little chickadees , Would you like some bread ?
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| like |
to like thing of life |
153 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Sure , everyone liked the good things of life .
When men are successful , they like the good things of life .
How he likes the good things of life !
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| like |
to like banner |
152 |
V:obj:N |
And he would have liked the Banner better had not Mr. Slide talked about the 'Ouse .
I like those faded banners and the coats-of-arms which belonged to the Knights of the Garter .
" He said Little , but to the purpose ; and his manner Flung hovering graces o'er him like a banner .
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| like |
to like ship |
152 |
V:obj:N |
Ca n't I do as I like about my own ship ?
But when you do not go to sea you may have what ships you like .
However , some seamen secure jobs on ships they like and stay aboard for years .
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| like |
to like young lady |
152 |
V:obj:N |
But you have n't told me how you like the young lady yet .
That 's the kind of young lady I like .
Or had he had a predilection for liking young ladies ?
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to like incense |
151 |
V:obj:N |
They like incense , but not the smell of brimstone .
Katherine was much too feminine not to like the incense of his devotion , especially when he kept it within certain limits .
" I like incense and vestments ; but I do n't think they 're the most important things in religion .
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| like |
to like sugar |
151 |
V:obj:N |
My husband takes milk and the boys like sugar , but I like the taste of the tea .
Somebody else likes sugar as well as Carlo , I guess .
Put in all the sugar you like , if you find the tea too strong .
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to like swimmer |
151 |
V:obj:N |
He liked a good swimmer , a real man of the sea .
Cary drew a long breath , shook himself slightly like a swimmer who has breasted a formidable wave , and broke into a laugh .
Although he likes working with all the swimmers at Penn State , on the record he has stated that Max Ettore is his favorite swimmer saying " Max is just awesome , probably the sweetest guy I have ever met and definitely the coolest Jersey Wahoo I know .
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to like cream |
150 |
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Uncle Billy ordered for each the cream she most liked and a generous plate of little cakes .
And he liked chocolate creams best .
" Of all things in the world , " said Kitty , " I like chocolate creams best .
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to like general |
150 |
V:obj:N |
General " Peter Abrams " likes to refer to himself as a reverse engineer .
The keen-eyed capitalist liked the General , and in a way honored him greatly .
John saw from their manner that these men liked and respected their immense general .
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| like |
to like circus |
150 |
V:obj:N |
But whether he liked the circus or not , it was no longer safe for him to remain with the company .
" I like it here , but I like the circus better .
He does n't like the circus ; and I have n't the money to send him back to Africa where he comes from .
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| like |
to like adam |
150 |
V:obj:N |
He also likes reading Eva och Adam : Season 2 Episode 3 and playing guitar Eva och Adam : Season 1 Episode 2 .
I like Adam .
Knowing that Adam always liked to keep his options open , Miranda was forced to the lonely conclusion that he did n't love her enough to commit himself to her for life .
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| like |
to like mule |
150 |
V:obj:N |
I do n't like mules though , do you ?
I like mules , but I wanted to kill that one .
But I liked the mule .
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| like |
to like neighbor |
150 |
V:obj:N |
Missouri Jack is n't a neighbor that I like .
But my mamma does not like all the neighbors knowing about that girl .
You know I do not like the neighbors to use my land that way , they should ask permission first .
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| like |
to like bath |
150 |
V:obj:N |
And I should like a good bath and a breakfast first .
Would you like a hot bath , and your dinner in bed ?
Would you like a hot bath and a cup of hot tea at once ?
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| like |
to like 'but |
149 |
V:obj:N |
' 'I 'm awf'ly sorry , ' said the captain , penitently , 'but I thought you would like to hear the news .
' " 'I do not know , ' said the man , 'but I should like to know , if you care to tell me .
' 'Thanks , very much , ' says Starlight , brightening up a bit ; 'but I hardly like to deprive you of him .
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to like leather |
148 |
V:obj:N |
I do n't like Leather 'cause he 's a convict , and it ai n't nice for honest men to have them sort for fellow-servants .
He do n't seem to like leather , " added Jim thoughtfully ; " for I noticed that when the men were going down his throat , he kind of shet his jaws , so as to slip off their boots .
Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : " I like the crinkled leather on the doors " , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : " It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln .
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to like aunt |
148 |
V:obj:N |
Besides , I liked my aunt , and my aunt liked me .
Aunt May was quite good with computers and liked to search for things on the Internet .
Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style , and making a formal call .
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| like |
to like infant |
148 |
V:obj:N |
That 's all very well ; but how will he like his infant being deposited there ?
She wished she could see Valentine lying dead before her ; above all would she like the accursed infant to come to grief .
When she was an infant I liked to hear her praises ; and as she grew more and more beautiful , and began to pour out the first woman feelings of her guileless heart upon me , I received them with gratitude , and really believed she was , what I called her , 'my heart 's treasure .
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to like parson |
148 |
V:obj:N |
For myself I own that I like the hunting parson .
I like that parson of yours ; he 's a trump .
" Yet we like the Parson .
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| like |
to like whisper |
148 |
V:obj:N |
When Elizabeth took it off her mother took it to the bedroom to put it away , remarking in a whisper that it made her look quite like a school-teacher ought to look .
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| like |
to like dewdrop |
148 |
V:obj:N |
Polly liked her dewdrops and mist-cakes better than any other food , so they all enjoyed an excellent breakfast .
" " We 'd like some dewdrops and mist-cakes , " said Polychrome .
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| like |
to like script |
148 |
V:obj:N |
Circle Films liked the script and agreed to finance the film .
Comedy Central liked the script and agreed to commit to a series .
Pop liked the script but refused to take part in the film .
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| like |
to like sieve |
147 |
V:obj:N |
By this time , the Richard had so many shot-holes low down in her hull , that like a sieve she began to settle .
" said he to himself , sorrowfully , as he jogged slowly on , " it was predestined that I should die of hunger and ennui within those crumbling walls , and under my poor , dilapidated , old roof , that lets the rain run through it like a huge sieve .
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| like |
to like robinson crusoe |
147 |
V:obj:N |
" Then she began to read as follows : -- ROBINSON CRUSOE " I guess I shall like Robinson Crusoe , mamma !
I liked the look of him ; so feeling rather like Robinson Crusoe , when he booked up Friday , " I got me a man .
" What , with a place like a jolly island all to yourself , where you live like a Robinson Crusoe and can keep tame magpies and anything you like , and your boat , and your dog , and eel-spear ?
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| like |
to like sword |
147 |
V:obj:N |
Long rays of sunlight cut through it like swords .
Or would you like swords on the beach ?
Sirohi sword was very well liked by rajput .
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| like |
to like palace |
146 |
V:obj:N |
Even its rooms are all empty , and it is n't the kind of a palace I like !
" Have you hit on a palace you like better ?
And she said , " Now , do n't you like my palace , Maddie ?
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| like |
to like parting |
146 |
V:obj:N |
But you do n't like parting .
Old men do n't like parting with their money , and he 's like other old men .
" " I do n't like parting with any of them .
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| like |
to like fig |
146 |
V:obj:N |
He asked me if I would like a fig .
The canaries will like another swing ( Fig .
" " Would you like another fig ?
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| like |
to like volcano |
146 |
V:obj:N |
These fusees were to burn in the void it is true , but oxygen would not fail them , for they would furnish that themselves like the lunar volcanoes , the deflagration of which has never been prevented by the want of atmosphere around the moon .
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| like |
to like shell |
146 |
V:obj:N |
Nothing but the noise of the weather , and the night dark around him like a shell .
You may like shells but I do n't .
Dearly would he have liked to plant a shell or two among the treacherous scoundrels , but just now he could not spare the time .
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| like |
to like kangaroo |
146 |
V:obj:N |
The different sorts of kangaroo you may like to know .
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| like |
to like grasshopper |
145 |
V:obj:N |
" By the way , how would you like a real good grasshopper ?
And he liked grasshoppers and cutworms , too .
He likes grasshoppers , clover , acorns , roots , and fish .
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| like |
to like halo |
145 |
V:obj:N |
He likes playing Halo every Wednesday and paintball on the weekend with his friends .
After getting to know Nadia , he discovers that he really likes halos .
We like halos .
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| like |
to like frock |
144 |
V:obj:N |
Will you do me up , dear , and tell me how you like my frock ?
Well , I rather like her frock , ERNEST .
She likes a new frock every Sunday , and a birthday every month ; and she always drinks milk for supper .
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| like |
to like gown |
144 |
V:obj:N |
But I liked that new , black gown of yours to-night too .
What you mean , I suppose , is that you like my gown .
It 's rather my misfortune that my face -- " " Did n't you like my gown ?
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| like |
to like omen |
144 |
V:obj:N |
He does n't like omens and things , mother says .
She liked the allusion to St Martin 's summer ; it seemed like a good omen .
" " I like not the omen , " said I. " Freits follow them that freits fear , " said Randal , in our country speech .
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| like |
to like 'im |
143 |
V:obj:N |
Nice feller , though -- you 'll like 'im .
Everybody liked 'im , and the ship 's cat loved 'im .
There 's a balance abart 'im that I like .
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| like |
to like blossom |
143 |
V:obj:N |
There is no blossom I like so well .
He likes cherry blossoms , night time walks , calligraphy and spicy food .
Look at them , Mary ; ai n't they like the blossoms on a peacock 's tail ?
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| like |
to like martyr |
143 |
V:obj:N |
If he revenges himself upon us in any way , we must just put up with it like other martyrs .
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| like |
to like biscuit |
143 |
V:obj:N |
Not a thief , just a little boy who likes biscuits .
Would you like a biscuit with your tea ?
We 're going to play at besieged castles , and we 'd like the biscuits to provision the garrison .
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| like |
to like dawn |
143 |
V:obj:N |
If it be the dawn I should like to send out messengers again ; something may be heard at Spezzia .
" With the first dawn I should like to go , I only wish I could fly to her now .
Her white sails gleam 'd like the sunny dawn On the brow of the sapphire sky , And her thunder echoed along the cliffs , Awaking the seamew 's cry ; Oh !
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| like |
to like father before him |
143 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I like the boy , and I liked his father before him ; and as this story must get about , it cannot but do him serious damage .
He started a motor-cycle business " Speedaway Motors " in Blackheath , West Midlands , ( later to be joined by his son Steve Bastable , who like his father before him rode as another Cradley number one .
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| like |
to like pebble |
143 |
V:obj:N |
In the hopes of pleasing her , " the Indians brought her emeralds and rubies , seeing that she like pretty pebbles " .
While our hands were raised in the act of stepping down , a piece of an exploding shell hissed through between us , just below our arms , carrying away a portion of both the skirts of his coat and my dress , rolling along the ground a few rods from us like a harmless pebble in the water .
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| like |
to like quiet |
142 |
V:obj:N |
But at present he liked the quiet even better .
He grew weary very soon now , and liked better the quiet of the house when only Elizabeth was with him .
Dupr� said that he liked quiet , being a student .
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| like |
to like for sake |
142 |
V:prep:N |
Sacrifice means giving up something you like for the sake of other people .
You must try to like her for my sake .
You must try to like me for his sake .
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| like |
to like billow |
142 |
V:obj:N |
" " Some men die at ebb tide ; some at low water ; some at the full of the flood ; -- and I feel now like a billow that 's all one crested comb , Starbuck .
There where the Rhine rolls onward like a great billow , and bursts , and is changed into snow-white , gleaming , cloud-like masses , as if clouds were being created there , with the rainbow fluttering like a loose band above them ; there he thought of the water-mill at Kj�ge , with its rushing , foaming water .
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| like |
to like show |
141 |
V:obj:N |
But , other days , we like a show .
These shows are still liked by millions of people .
He asked me how I had liked the " show .
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| like |
to like island |
141 |
V:obj:N |
Because if they are , I do n't think I shall like your island .
The mount , and all the others connected with it , rose simply like islands out of a vast ocean of scrub .
In coasting near the island Robert had often thought he would like to examine the wreck , but he never had done so .
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| like |
to like atmosphere |
141 |
V:obj:N |
Moreover , I like the atmosphere of the place , it is so weird .
He liked the atmosphere and brought the bar to the attention of film director Tony Scott .
These spread uneasiness around them like an atmosphere .
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| like |
to like of animal |
141 |
V:prep:N |
This thy abode , O king , in the woods , like that of any wild animal , is what a man of weakness alone would submit to .
It was difficult to say whether her face was ugly or pretty ; the features were not amiss -- it was the expression , vague and dim like that of an animal , that puzzled Evelyn .
In his research in plant stimuli , he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals .
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| like |
to like wing of bird |
140 |
V:obj+prep:N |
-- and the two graceful feluccas whose lateen sails look so like the outspread wings of a bird !
" repeated the songstress , redoubling her efforts -- not to escape , which was out of the question , but to shield her mouth from contact with the red moustaches , hovering over it like the wings of a bloodstained bird of rapine .
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| like |
to like wing of bird |
140 |
V:obj+prep:N |
-- and the two graceful feluccas whose lateen sails look so like the outspread wings of a bird !
" repeated the songstress , redoubling her efforts -- not to escape , which was out of the question , but to shield her mouth from contact with the red moustaches , hovering over it like the wings of a bloodstained bird of rapine .
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| like |
to like tune |
140 |
V:obj:N |
But you rather like the little tune , and stop to listen .
Perhaps , or perhaps he just liked the tune .
The fags rather liked the tune ; the words were Beetle 's .
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| like |
to like cock |
140 |
V:obj:N |
" Larry : " You like his cock ?
We do n't like it at all , and we do n't like a cock or hen to break anything in the house , for we know then some one will be going away .
No man would have thought there was anythink in such a trifling cirkumstance ; master did , though , and pounced upon it like a cock on a barlycorn .
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| like |
to like fairy story |
140 |
V:obj:N |
Is n't it just like a fairy story ?
Is n't it really like a fairy story ?
It seems almost like a fairy story now , but at that time it was terribly real .
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| like |
to like art |
139 |
V:obj:N |
Jazz art is soon created , soon liked , and soon forgotten .
But I like my art , and I know how to exercise my art .
By Fortune , Frank , I do not like these Arts .
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| like |
to like breaking |
138 |
V:obj:N |
All his thoughts , worded and otherwise , now seemed to crash in upon themselves like the breaking of a wave , crushing and smothering every positive impulse , every hopeful thought inside him .
All his thoughts , worded and otherwise , seemed to crash in upon themselves like the breaking of a wave , crushing and smothering every positive impulse , every hopeful thought within him .
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| like |
to like weasel |
138 |
V:obj:N |
It is back 'd like a weasel .
He grabbed , scrunched , drew back , grabbed , scrunched again , as a lion will -- for the cats neither hold fast like a weasel nor snap like a wolf .
So she topped the fence like a deer , while Johnnie slipped through it like a pig a few seconds later , and old Spot wriggled under it like a weasel soon afterward .
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| like |
to like plum |
138 |
V:obj:N |
' " 'You asked me if I liked plums , ' said Daisy , bursting into an irresistible ripple of laughter .
" " And does n't like the plums in any of them , " said Josephine tartly .
He put in his thumb And pulled out a plum , And said , " What a big squirrel am I. " He pulled out the kind of plum he liked best of all .
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| like |
to like fog |
138 |
V:obj:N |
I liked the fog ; somehow it seemed to emanate from me instead of rolling up from the ocean , and to represent me .
" Rather seemed to like the fog , per se , if only his particular fancy in matter of colour gratified .
To be sure , we cannot always see our hands before us for fog ; but I like fog , and do not care about seeing my hand before me .
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| like |
to like applause |
137 |
V:obj:N |
And Snap barked so loudly -- for he liked applause that there was noise enough for even jolly Aunt Sarah .
' The whole Court gave way to like applause , and clapped their hands as well , so that few save those who stood nearest took notice of Madame de Bruhl 's faint cry , and still fewer understood why she rose up suddenly from her stool and stood gazing at her husband with burning cheeks and clenched hands .
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| like |
to like pack of wolf |
137 |
V:obj+prep:N |
If I ever once let these people get a glimpse of the higher side of my nature , they would set on me like a pack of wolves and tear me in pieces .
They rushed at him like a pack of wolves .
Black Boy 's hoof-prints will be plain enough in the soft earth where the rain has not washed them away , and they 'll come on after me like a pack of hungry wolves .
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| like |
to like peacock |
137 |
V:obj:N |
Her Grace likes to see a man hot and in a hurry sometimes ; and not always like a peacock in the shade .
I like peacocks even if they are proud !
I like this little peacock , sister .
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| like |
to like cut |
137 |
V:obj:N |
Everybody likes a tax cut but the government would actually raise more revenue by cutting taxes .
Ah , I like a good clean cut .
However , Hoffman and Beatty liked the film 's final cut and tried to defend it .
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| like |
to like pack of wolf |
137 |
V:obj+prep:N |
If I ever once let these people get a glimpse of the higher side of my nature , they would set on me like a pack of wolves and tear me in pieces .
They rushed at him like a pack of wolves .
Black Boy 's hoof-prints will be plain enough in the soft earth where the rain has not washed them away , and they 'll come on after me like a pack of hungry wolves .
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| like |
to like sacrilege |
137 |
V:obj:N |
to ME those words sound almost like a sacrilege !
but it seems almost like sacrilege to me , to stand before such an audience and repeat words so solemn and significant , when they will mean nothing , when the whole thing will be but a farce , " Edith tremulously remarked .
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| like |
to like dust |
137 |
V:obj:N |
He liked not the dust from a falling house .
Throw all the dust you like , but do n't let it be gold dust .
Then she said in a hesitating voice : " I think I should like to -- to -- dust out the room before I unpack , please .
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| like |
to like spoke of wheel |
136 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The window had a great big star in the centre of it with a myriad little cracks radiating from it like the spokes of a wheel .
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| like |
to like fine |
136 |
V:obj:N |
But I 'd like the country fine if we had a real house to live in .
Well , I liked that little pocket piece fine .
You 'd like Maud fine if you saw her , George .
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| like |
to like spoke of wheel |
136 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The window had a great big star in the centre of it with a myriad little cracks radiating from it like the spokes of a wheel .
|
| like |
to like sound of name |
136 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He liked the sound of the name and decided to write a song using a similar place name .
She evidently liked the sound of her peculiar name .
She was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts , and I liked the sound of her name .
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| like |
to like paul |
136 |
V:obj:N |
She is an excellent cook , and does not like Paul at first because he looks white .
Above all she liked Paul , and did not like Wilhelm , and that ought to be taken into account .
Miss Dixon rather liked Paul , but since the advent of Alice he had become more and more interested in the latter .
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| like |
to like sound of name |
136 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He liked the sound of the name and decided to write a song using a similar place name .
She evidently liked the sound of her peculiar name .
She was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts , and I liked the sound of her name .
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| like |
to like miser |
135 |
V:obj:N |
" Obi was an emigrant , and those emigrants are ginerally so fond of ownin ' the soil , that like misers , they carry as much of it about 'em on their parsons , in a common way , as they cleverly can .
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| like |
to like him in spite |
135 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Everyone seemed to like him in spite of his odd ways .
But he remembered that she had always liked him in spite of the fact that she did not favor his attention to Helen .
To a man they liked him little , in spite of their easy friendliness with mankind in general .
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| like |
to like summer |
134 |
V:obj:N |
The dogs did not seem to like the summer , it was so wet on the ice , and so warm .
But in summer we like to have the room dark , and the sun does get round in the morning quite dazzling on the white shades .
" How would you like a summer in the saddle ?
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| like |
to like dance |
134 |
V:obj:N |
Burrows comments , I like the traditional mens dances from England .
It will surely be a pleasant sight to see the children dance about the May-pole , and I shall like well to come .
In Los Angeles , in London , they do not like the dance so much as here .
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| like |
to like coal of fire |
134 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The voice of him was like a solan 's and dinnle 'd in folks ' lugs , and the words of him like coals of fire .
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| like |
to like turkey |
134 |
V:obj:N |
" " I had an idea that all of us would like turkey .
" " I like turkey , " said Russ .
" I begin to feel as if I can pick a bit myself ; but you wo n't like raw turkey , will you ?
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| like |
to like mystery |
134 |
V:obj:N |
The former difficulty in grafting the hickory seems now like a mystery .
Mystical Lowell was , as every poet must be , but I do not think he liked mystery .
He likes mystery and suspense and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form .
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| like |
to like coal of fire |
134 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The voice of him was like a solan 's and dinnle 'd in folks ' lugs , and the words of him like coals of fire .
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| like |
to like mamma |
134 |
V:obj:N |
Would you like mamma to stay with you , darling ?
Would you have liked mamma to invite him here ?
But I like my new mamma best .
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| like |
to like e |
134 |
V:obj:N |
Es fer his bond ye kin put hit at any figger ye likes so long es thar 's land enough an ' money enough amongst us ter kiver hit .
" is great the pity it " ) , is toigh leam e ( " I like it " or " I consider it pleasant " , lit .
R I have an R , it stands for Right , And I will hold it high ; R And mine I 'll place beside it , For R also have I. E I like the letter E the best , For what is Earth without it ?
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| like |
to like raven |
133 |
V:obj:N |
She starts to like Raven and accepts her for being a vampire , but Raven actually was n't .
Allo looked at me like a one-eyed raven .
She liked the ravens and the eagles who fed the hermits .
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| like |
to like beaver |
133 |
V:obj:N |
The creature itself looks somewhat like the beaver , and some of its habits are also similar .
|
| like |
to like caterpillar |
133 |
V:obj:N |
" A living man , " said one ; " a living man , " said the other ; and they came thronging about me like caterpillars from every corner .
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| like |
to like eating |
133 |
V:obj:N |
She said in substance : " You see my appetite is fastidious , and I like good eating and drinking .
" I 've got a good cook too , for I like decent eating and drinking .
Nor was Mr. Mountford a bad clergyman , as clergymen went in those days. He did not drink , though he liked good eating as much as any one .
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| like |
to like blue |
133 |
V:obj:N |
She likes the color blue and prefers wearing short dresses .
The women mostly said that they did n't know , but they liked the blue .
Explaining the choice of the color blue for the Na'vi , Cameron said " I just like blue .
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| like |
to like fowl |
133 |
V:obj:N |
My wife did n't like to risk cooking the fowl till you were really come .
He liked fowl of all kinds .
' or 'maybe she 'd like a fat fowl ?
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| like |
to like grandmother |
133 |
V:obj:N |
Prince Philip recalled , " I liked my grandmother very much and she was always helpful .
When I 'm a grandmother I 'd like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen .
In an autobiography by the third Earl , he na�vely remarks that his mother never liked his grandmother .
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| like |
to like kiss |
133 |
V:obj:N |
Bree sides with Lynette since Gabrielle is an attractive ex-model and she would not have liked the kiss either .
I 'd like a kiss myself .
" I do believe a boy likes a kiss from a sweet , pretty lady that he has a right to care for , quite as well as a girl does .
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| like |
to like lifetime |
132 |
V:obj:N |
-- No , he was not in love ; and how could he fall in love with a dead woman , whom , even during her lifetime he had not liked , whom he had almost forgotten ?
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| like |
to like relative |
132 |
V:obj:N |
If I have a friend , I do n't see that it 's incumbent upon me to like that friend 's relatives .
The ungrateful father answered Popeye 's greeting with , " You look like something the cat dragged in ... I do n't like relatives .
" I wonder why the great plan did not make it possible for all folks to like their relatives ?
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| like |
to like sound of voice |
132 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He seemed to like the sound of Mary 's voice .
The first bar went through me like the sound of his voice .
Bully , on his part , rather seemed to like the sound of his own voice .
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| like |
to like pigeon |
132 |
V:obj:N |
And then she turn 'd to the preacher And leer 'd like a love-sick pigeon .
He would not have put the thought into words , but in his heart he was aggrieved that his cousin liked the pigeons and the text , and did not like his emblematical roses and the Latin hymn .
" Father does n't mean to be cruel , miss , " said Martha ; " but he likes all the pigeons to be white ; and if a blue one comes he shoots it .
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to like paris |
132 |
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And , oh , you would like Paris .
Surely it would make your mother much happier , and you do n't seem to like Paris so very much ?
Russian aristocratic visitors to Paris also liked to have their portraits executed by the famous master .
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| like |
to like sound of voice |
132 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He seemed to like the sound of Mary 's voice .
The first bar went through me like the sound of his voice .
Bully , on his part , rather seemed to like the sound of his own voice .
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| like |
to like youth |
131 |
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She blessed it , and liked the youth the better .
He was liking this youth more and more every minute .
You are a girl , whereas I am a woman , -- and he likes your youth .
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| like |
to like climate |
131 |
V:obj:N |
And I -- well , I like the climate .
Everything seems so much alive and I like the climate very much .
You will like the climate when you get used to it .
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| like |
to like crocodile |
131 |
V:obj:N |
Other distractions Time must reconcile ; The State is poyson 'd like a Crocodile .
The speaker from the Northern Region will get on very well with my three year old granddaughter , she do n't like crocodiles either .
" Party at the Deanery , " one guest notes : " tripe for dinner ; do n't like crocodile for breakfast .
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| like |
to like ham |
131 |
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said the Sergeant ; now , how many would like ham ?
Still , Miss , " with a loving smile at Joyce , " I do think ye 'll like the ham .
" Would you like some broiled ham , sir ?
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| like |
to like george |
131 |
V:obj:N |
He liked Sir George ; his smaller manhood went out in admiration to the other 's splendid personality .
We do n't know where to go once we 're free , so I 'd like George to lead us .
George , for example , liked to take long motoring trips out of the city , on warm summer evenings .
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| like |
to like things |
131 |
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And there are a great many other things I would like different .
Of course I should n't like fetching milk an ' things when I 'm a little lady born .
The Spaniards may like such a noise and hubbub , but they like a great many things which would not suit us .
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| like |
to like byron |
130 |
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He likes Byron .
The development of their mutual sympathy was equally encouraged by the professors , governesses , and all surrounding the young lady , for they liked young Byron extremely .
" I like Byron , I give him a 42 but I ca n't dance to it !
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| like |
to like skyrocket |
130 |
V:obj:N |
Wipe your shoes well if you 're goin ' up , and do n't go burstin ' in on her like a skyrocket .
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| like |
to like touch |
130 |
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He did not like even that slight touch of irony .
Men that like the touch of the sloe in me shall never be drawn away by your sweet lips .
She liked the touch of those cool fingers on her forehead .
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| like |
to like puppet |
129 |
V:obj:N |
It 's not a very secure way to make a living , but he has always liked puppets .
and -- I know you , -- methinks we move and talk just like so many overgrown puppets .
Banjo was put off by the attitude of their clerics and abandoned this effort , disappointing Odin , who stated that he likes puppets .
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| like |
to like winter |
129 |
V:obj:N |
For my part , I like winter .
But I do n't like the winter .
But I like the winter ; and we have plenty of it in our quarter too .
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| like |
to like man of sense |
128 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I ca n't say , but I like the man as well as most I have seen ; he is a man of sense and sobriety , to give him his due , in very easy circumstances , and much respected by all who know him ; which is no bad earnest in a marriage prospect .
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| like |
to like man of sense |
128 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I ca n't say , but I like the man as well as most I have seen ; he is a man of sense and sobriety , to give him his due , in very easy circumstances , and much respected by all who know him ; which is no bad earnest in a marriage prospect .
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| like |
to like colonel |
128 |
V:obj:N |
Everyone likes the old Colonel , of course .
My father likes the Colonel ; I would never think of telling him .
The colonel was well liked by all ranks .
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| like |
to like trooper |
128 |
V:obj:N |
she curses and storms at me like a trooper , and can hardly keep her hands off me .
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| like |
to like pork |
128 |
V:obj:N |
He asked me if I liked fat pork .
When Tom wanted beef for dinner Joan liked pork , and if Joan wanted to have chicken Tom would like to have duck .
For Amenda 's sake we dealt with the man , but we never liked him , and we liked his pork still less .
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| like |
to like tyrant |
128 |
V:obj:N |
It seems strange I should have grown to like this tyrant .
Man in his feelings towards man has now pretty well made up his mind on that head ; but in his choice of mountains probably he may like the tyrant best .
The El Hassan dream was still upon her , but , womanlike , she wondered if she liked the would-be tyrant of all North Africa as well as she had once liked the easy-going American idealist , Homer Crawford .
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| like |
to like venus |
128 |
V:obj:N |
I like your VENUS well enough , too .
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| like |
to like hammer |
128 |
V:obj:N |
Koku seems to like this hammer , and knows how to get it in order once it gets off the guides .
" " I -- er -- I knew Larson liked this hammer better .
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| like |
to like egyptian |
128 |
V:obj:N |
But previously they shave their heads , like the Egyptians when an Apis dies ; and if any woman refuse to do so , she must sell her beauty during one day to all who like .
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| like |
to like city |
127 |
V:obj:N |
How do you think you shall like the city ?
If you like old cities , why do you not like old women ?
The city was flush with self confidence and liked to compare itself to the famous Republic of Rome .
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| like |
to like sheet |
127 |
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The snow-drift rose in solid masses , whirled madly round for a few seconds , and then was caught by the blast and swept away like sheets of white flame .
The snow-drift rose in solid masses , whirled madly round for a few seconds , and then was caught by the blast , and swept away like sheets of white flame .
An unusually large wave carried me nearer the sky than I liked to be , and just as the sharp bow of the great iron ship was balancing on its crest for the desperate plunge , a glare of lightning made sky and sea like a sheet of flame and curdled the blood in my veins .
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| like |
to like dante |
127 |
V:obj:N |
I should like the Dante he used to carry in his pocket .
" But seeing him exchange Ariosto for Roman History , she murmured , " I like Dante .
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| like |
to like ivory |
127 |
V:obj:N |
" " I liked the ivory better than the silver , mother .
" 'T ai n't like Ivory to be out nights and leave her to Rod .
I should almost like Ivory for myself , he is so tall and handsome , but of course he can never marry anybody ; he is too poor and has his mother to look after .
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| like |
to like hanging |
127 |
V:obj:N |
And I too , I do not like this hanging .
I do n't like this hanging about , wasting the day .
First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold , which cost a thousand sequins , and another like to it of crimson stuff .
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| like |
to like eggshell |
127 |
V:obj:N |
Then a great figure heaved staggering into view , bloody , gashed , great arms encircling Mercutian heads , smashing them together like eggshells , flinging them apart , seizing others .
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| like |
to like of others |
126 |
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It is said by some that , under pretence of the conspiracy to which I have alluded , he inflicted most severe tortures on the unfortunate chief ; but others maintain , that his throat was cut , like that of the others , without any form of investigation or delay .
At the first sight of the veil thrown over the heads of Am�lie and H�loise , and the agitation of both , she knew at once that the time of these two girls , like that of many others , had come .
The history of the settlement of Porto Seguro , like that of all the others , is stained with the most atrocious cruelties ; not such as soldiers in the heat of war commit , but cold calculated cruelties , exterminating men for the sake of growing canes , so waiting patiently for the fruit of crime .
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| like |
to like ez |
126 |
V:obj:N |
But just ez you like .
" I did n't think I could ever like a Spaniard ez well ez I do that thar little leftenant .
" Wall , he kin flee ez many countries ez he likes , an ' 't wo n't dew him no good .
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| like |
to like flint |
126 |
V:obj:N |
Innate jealousies strike together like flint and steel dashing off sparks by which nearly everything that life can warm its core withal is kindled and kept burning .
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| like |
to like lake |
126 |
V:obj:N |
" A dip : you do n't like the lake , sir ; but I do .
" I like the lake , " she said .
" " I like the lake , " said his wife , " but I like it best from shore .
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| like |
to like spaniard |
126 |
V:obj:N |
We do not like the Spaniards .
I like that young Spaniard ; he 's a clever man .
There , as at Hamburg , the Spaniards were well liked , for their general obliged them to observe the strictest discipline .
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| like |
to like samson |
126 |
V:obj:N |
Many well favored youths had sought her hand , but , better than others , she liked the big , masterful , good-natured , humorous Samson , crude as he was .
If you would like Samson or Regnier to read the play ( in English ) , I know them well , and would be very glad indeed to tell them that I sent it with your sanction because I had been so much struck by it .
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| like |
to like it in world |
126 |
V:obj+prep:N |
There is nothing like will ; everybody can do exactly what they like in this world , provided they really like it .
" There 's a stack of cinemas in Leicester Square , " he said , " Jake says nowhere else like it in the world .
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| like |
to like geese |
125 |
V:obj:N |
His friend and neighbor , the fox , likes fat geese and chickens as well as birds , squirrels , and wood-rats .
" said the Fox , " I ca n't really tell Who put such a thought in your head : " For I 've always liked geese more than other birds , And you of your race I 've loved best .
" An ' they star 'd like two geese ; Bud he said , whol t ' tear stood in his ee , " Naa , it 'll just be a penny apiece .
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| like |
to like terrier |
125 |
V:obj:N |
" " No , " says he , shakin ' the water off of him like a terrier , " I -- I ca n't seem to get used to bein ' a city man .
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| like |
to like shark |
125 |
V:obj:N |
They get along with other semi-agressive fish , but they do not like other sharks .
The crowd at the beach likes the shark , and Duff Beer announces that the shark &mdash ; named Duff McShark &mdash ; will be their new mascot .
" Here is the money , " Fred said , after a moment 's hesitancy , handing a Spanish doubloon to the cute Yankee , who clutched at it like a hungry shark .
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| like |
to like soil |
125 |
V:obj:N |
As you know neither the nut nor the tree likes wet soil .
It likes a dry yet rich and light soil .
They all like a light , rich , and sandy soil .
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| like |
to like clock |
124 |
V:obj:N |
This new clock was liked very much in the southern market .
His pale face and voice marked for her like a clock the minutes that passed with intolerable slowness .
You liked the old clock , and it will look ripping in the hall , wo n't it ?
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| like |
to like monk |
124 |
V:obj:N |
I like the cowled monks in Rome .
He was the breed of monk that she liked , suave , well-mannered , observant of men and cities .
' " You know , " continued the abbe , " that I do not like monks , that I distrust their humility and abhor their lives of inaction .
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| like |
to like grain |
124 |
V:obj:N |
The teeth crunch on it like so many grains of pepper , on every page of Voltaire .
The wild oats made a rough kind of porridge , but were not so important and so nourishing as the wild rice which is so often mentioned in the stories of the pioneers , who liked this wild grain as much as the Indians did .
Robin likes the golden grain , Nods his head and sings again : 'Chirping , chirping cheerily , Here I come so merrily , Thank you , children dear !
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| like |
to like profession |
124 |
V:obj:N |
And yet I should like the profession well enough .
You do n't like my profession , parson ?
By the bye , I do n't like that profession for you .
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| like |
to like shepherd |
123 |
V:obj:N |
She grows to like a shepherd named Lel , but her heart is unable to know love .
" sighed Zenobia , " I have lost Carthage town , But I like this lithe shepherd So handsome and brown .
That 's the kind o ' shepherd all beasts would like , for they know fine when a body cares for them , " Geordie said , with a glowing face , as he looked up at Grace , and the " Third Primer " slipped unheeded on the floor .
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| like |
to like top |
123 |
V:obj:N |
I wish Edward had left his tools out ; I should like to plane the top of the shelf .
" " Then I should like a top made of lead , " said Marco .
' If he do n't like the top , there 's ground at the bottom .
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| like |
to like emerald |
123 |
V:obj:N |
And while she turned it round her lips set themselves firmly together , and it seemed to her that she could satisfy William as these women had satisfied their husbands ; she could pretend to like emeralds when she preferred diamonds .
" " Pray excuse me ; I like these emeralds , " said Gwendolen , frightened in spite of her preparation .
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| like |
to like maiden |
123 |
V:obj:N |
He had taught her his vocabulary of signs , and the maiden liked to observe his strange remarks and inquiries on passing events .
I like the boys ; I like the demure little maiden ; I like you .
" May like a maiden , lies .
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| like |
to like villain |
123 |
V:obj:N |
But I mostly like the villains better than the heroes .
Most of the villains we like are very smart people .
Maybe everybody just likes a really good villain , and I think Jason is probably in the top five .
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| like |
to like blood |
123 |
V:obj:N |
But then I do n't like blood so I would n't want to be either a cook or a surgeon .
But I do n't like these mixed bloods and half-told stories .
Looks as if the microbe liked fresh blood .
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| like |
to like ripple |
123 |
V:obj:N |
They ai n't like ripples .
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| like |
to like reptile |
123 |
V:obj:N |
It certainly was not because she liked reptiles .
Consumers may also look at these reptiles if they want and if they like the reptile , they can buy it from the seller for a certain price .
For example , in 2001 was organized an exhibition-competition International competition of beauty among snakes , where visitors voted for the reptiles they liked best .
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| like |
to like chameleon |
123 |
V:obj:N |
His organ was 'the Afrikander Bond ' , a society formed partly for agricultural , partly for political purposes , a creature which like a chameleon has often changed its colour , sometimes working peacefully beside British politicians , at other times openly conducting an anti-British agitation .
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| like |
to like for example |
122 |
V:prep:N |
Politeness and truth are often mutually incompatible ( how do we answer the friend who asks whether we like his new hairstyle , for example ?
' 'Do you like , for example , to go to that French Pension ?
Bismarck wished upon aggressive tactics in foreign policy ; Hitler seemed to like surprises , for example the non-aggression pact with Poland in January 1934 .
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| like |
to like ruby |
122 |
V:obj:N |
He often teases Jordan for liking Ruby .
" I like rubies , " he heard Katharine say .
" And I like the ruby .
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| like |
to like look of me |
122 |
V:obj+prep:N |
If ye do n't like the looks of me look t'other way !
Do n't you like the look of me ?
" Do n't you like the look of me ?
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| like |
to like venice |
122 |
V:obj:N |
" I am longing to know whether mother will like Venice .
Although Frederick Barbarossa would have liked Venice subdued , he had more pressing problems to deal with elsewhere in Italy .
He , too , liked Venice .
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| like |
to like mondays |
122 |
V:obj:N |
Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in , is a bit strange .
Her response to the action , " I do n't like Mondays , " inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name .
John Rock - Love Changes ( Everything ) " 2008 " Mark´Oh - I do n't like Mondays "
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| like |
to like alice |
122 |
V:obj:N |
Dennis liked Alice and Alice and Elliot liked each other .
She was willing that people should like Alice for any reason they chose , if they did not go too far .
Patrick had always liked Alice since they broke up and asked her to go to the prom with him .
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| like |
to like papa |
122 |
V:obj:N |
You know your papa he likes to drag in the whole world to show you off -- always just before you play .
Would you like papa to be Lord Greshamsbury ?
I should like my papa to see all this beautiful ground .
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| like |
to like author |
121 |
V:obj:N |
You did not so much wish your readers to like your favorite authors as to hate all the others .
When public attention is drawn to an author we like to have something of his on hand .
They entertained guests , the author wrote a large amount of correspondence and also liked to walk and hunt in the local area .
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| like |
to like shroud |
121 |
V:obj:N |
" Here the mists seem to have fallen upon us like a shroud , and we ca n't escape .
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| like |
to like stab |
121 |
V:obj:N |
-- the thought of Enrica pierced through him like the stab of a knife .
A jealous pang shoots through him like the stab of a knife , or the burning of iron red-hot on his flesh .
The frank words that this youth had always liked him , and that the Judge had cause for dislike , so generous , were like so many stabs .
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| like |
to like beatles |
121 |
V:obj:N |
He liked the Beatles , for God 's sake .
He was hired after a 15 minute interview which consisted mostly about how much he liked the Beatles .
" Also performed by Elvis Well I never been to England , but I kinda like the Beatles .
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| like |
to like fur |
121 |
V:obj:N |
Colonel , you 'll have to shoot me something with a nice soft fur ; I like furs .
But he nearly broke down when he said good-bye , fur he liked the doctor .
Besides , he likes fur me to compliment him on his growth .
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| like |
to like joe |
121 |
V:obj:N |
That 's what I like about you Joe , your notes .
But Joe liked to work out new and difficult feats of strength , skill and daring , and he was generally successful .
During this first winter I grew to like Joe and his particular cronies .
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| like |
to like plague |
121 |
V:obj:N |
From 1892 to date , and with what is required for the present year , $54,000,000 have been spent in combating locusts and like plagues to agriculture .
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| like |
to like thing about it |
121 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The only thing he liked about it was the good garage stink of gasoline .
It is a good yarn , but there are a couple of things I do not like about it .
The only thing she did n't like about it was -- its being a mistake .
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| like |
to like wi |
120 |
V:obj:N |
If you was n't glad to get your back turned , you liked a tussle wi ' a dragon better nor most folks .
A feller wi ' a headache enough to split his skull likes a quiet night !
She likes her eggs saft wi ' a lick of butter in them .
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| like |
to like idea of it |
120 |
V:obj+prep:N |
And I liked the idea of it very much .
Rhoda could not see the heavenly dust , but liked the idea of it .
But it is not regular or right , by any means ; I do n't like the idea of it at all ... .
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| like |
to like peasant |
120 |
V:obj:N |
Everybody likes the Donegal peasants , and they deserve to be liked .
He liked and did not like the peasants , just as he liked and did not like men in general .
He liked the peasants in the country .
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| like |
to like room |
119 |
V:obj:N |
But I have liked having my room to myself .
Would you like a room , or a suite ?
Would n't you like a room in the after cabin ?
|
| like |
to like caress |
119 |
V:obj:N |
Every word , every look and gesture fell upon him like a caress .
She did not like his caresses , but the memory of them thrilled her .
He remembers liking the caresses of his father 's footmen when he was quite a little boy .
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| like |
to like treat |
119 |
V:obj:N |
He should be able to find treats he liked almost as well as chocolate chip cookies , but ones that would n't blow his cover .
House liked intellectual treat .
A MEMBER : How much area would a ( 1/ 2-pound ) can like that treat ?
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| like |
to like tower |
118 |
V:obj:N |
But she liked the Tower , and the River , and the ships filled her with wonder and delight .
Then I like the old Curfew Tower , too , " she added .
" She asked me if I liked the tower in the church-yard , " I said .
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| like |
to like orpheus |
118 |
V:obj:N |
'Tis like about Orpheus , that yu told us .
|
| like |
to like band |
118 |
V:obj:N |
We do not like brass bands and noisy German tourists .
The group had met Waterman previously and the producer liked the band .
Gardener said of the band 's influences " We liked the noisy bands of the time .
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| like |
to like nest |
118 |
V:obj:N |
Off I go , I like a cosy warm nest .
She likes the warm nest she has fallen into .
When you attack one of the crew you bring every one of them after you like a nest of hornets .
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| like |
to like wool |
118 |
V:obj:N |
They like Scotch wool .
The garments of the rich amongst them are made of glass , but very soft : the poor have woven brass , which they have here in great abundance , and by pouring a little water over it , so manage as to card it like wool .
1:14 - His head and hairs white like wool , as white as snow ; and his eyes as a flame of fire ; 1:15 - And his feet like unto fine brass , as if they burned in a furnace ; and his voice as the sound of many waters .
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| like |
to like earthquake |
118 |
V:obj:N |
For this purpose we agreed to meet him with our usual smiles , to chat in the beginning with more than ordinary kindness , to amuse him a little ; and then in the midst of the flattering calm to burst upon him like an earthquake , and overwhelm him with the sense of his own baseness .
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| like |
to like painter |
118 |
V:obj:N |
If I were a painter I should like to paint you now -- and keep the picture .
I like painters , sir , though I do n't know much about paintings .
Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen .
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| like |
to like murmur |
117 |
V:obj:N |
She liked the murmur of the words , and the mysterious movements and shiftings of the priest .
I had liked the murmur of their low voices .
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| like |
to like jacob |
117 |
V:obj:N |
I like Jacob , though , better than half of my English cousins put together .
" Do you really feel that you would like Jacob to go with you ?
" 'Tis gone out of fashion long ago , but Jacob the miller likes to keep up the old ways .
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| like |
to like companion |
117 |
V:obj:N |
If so , I should like my companion to make friends with her .
The Indian gentleman had never had a companion he liked quite as much as he liked Sara .
Like many lively persons , he rather liked a companion to possess a vein of gravity , and this Netty seemed to have .
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| like |
to like spoke |
117 |
V:obj:N |
The window had a great big star in the centre of it with a myriad little cracks radiating from it like the spokes of a wheel .
|
| like |
to like jazz |
117 |
V:obj:N |
As a peace offering , David offers to take Max to a nightclub to hear some of the jazz music Max likes .
The entry for hipsters defined it as , " characters who like hot jazz .
Tsui rejected this idea as he felt that the Hong Kong audiences did not understand or like jazz .
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| like |
to like cabbage |
117 |
V:obj:N |
If you like oily cabbage , the top of any palmetto will furnish it .
" I suppose you do not like cabbage ?
I must say I should not like my cabbage boiled in that .
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| like |
to like pink |
117 |
V:obj:N |
Would you like the Pink , or the Blue Room ?
" I like red pinks better than pink ones ; but then , it 'll fade , anyhow , before night , so what 's the difference !
In 2009 , Mims told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , " On the back of most of my cars I had 'Think Pink ' ... I liked pink ever since I was a little girl .
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| like |
to like coleridge |
116 |
V:obj:N |
Think of a man of business liking Coleridge .
Do n't you like Coleridge ?
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| like |
to like sphinx |
116 |
V:obj:N |
Both men stood looking intently at Christine , who sat with her head erect , staring ahead of her like a sphinx , but saying nothing .
|
| like |
to like briton |
116 |
V:obj:N |
I do n't like the model young Briton .
|
| like |
to like eagles |
116 |
V:obj:N |
Being very worn out and not liking the Eagles , The Dude angers the cab driver after requesting him to change the station .
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| like |
to like 'and |
116 |
V:obj:N |
' 'I have been through that village already , ' said I , 'and I do not like turning back .
" 'Well , something happened last night , ' I says , 'and I 'd like to see you about it .
' 'They certainly do look happy , ' said Hollyhock , 'and I should like to see the boy with the blue eyes .
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| like |
to like dart |
116 |
V:obj:N |
They separated , and d'Artagnan rushed between them like a dart .
It like the Dart , was powered by a Napier Lion engine and had a crew of one .
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| like |
to like skeleton |
116 |
V:obj:N |
You are not the first I 've known to like skeletons .
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| like |
to like whiskey |
115 |
V:obj:N |
He liked Jack Daniel 's whiskey and was a user of ecstasy .
And when he got hold of whiskey he liked beating me even better .
Now Stephen had never learned to like straight whiskey , but he took down his share without a face .
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| like |
to like look in eye |
115 |
V:obj+prep:N |
You 're talking like a crazy man , and , hang it all , I do n't like the look in your eye .
He hardly liked the look in the fellow 's eyes , though he stood there motionless .
I do n't like the look in his eyes .
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| like |
to like kite |
115 |
V:obj:N |
Truly yours , ELEANOR H. DEAR ELEANOR : We are glad you like the kite , and that it flies well .
I have always liked flying kites .
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| like |
to like look in eye |
115 |
V:obj+prep:N |
You 're talking like a crazy man , and , hang it all , I do n't like the look in your eye .
He hardly liked the look in the fellow 's eyes , though he stood there motionless .
I do n't like the look in his eyes .
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| like |
to like jackal |
115 |
V:obj:N |
What do you mean by nosing about after me like a jackal ?
That jackal dwelt in a vast crematorium and liked to dwell there .
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| like |
to like cataract |
115 |
V:obj:N |
Others again were of a very different character , the water still tumbling about them like so many little cataracts .
The others tried to find a refuge in the aqueduct running through the cavern , but the pursuing alcohol rushed after them like a living cataract of fire .
" And as he clambered his way toward the green light , a great tear rolled from under the heavy lid and flowed past him like a cataract .
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| like |
to like feel of it |
115 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He liked the feel of it in his pocket .
If he likes the feel of it , he 'll probably stand still .
It was light , and he had always liked the feel of it on his shoulders .
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| like |
to like puff |
115 |
V:obj:N |
When he opened it she went through it like an arrow , crossed the paddock like a puff of smoke and in a moment was gone from his sight .
" If I might possibly butt in a moment * ( Puff , puff ) I should just like to say that I find what Lord Boddy is saying extraordinarily interesting .
So a boy , when he sees chickory flowers enticing the hand with soft , light , blue petals , wishes to stroke them and draws nearhe blowsand with the puff the whole flower flies away like down on the wind , and in his hands the too curious inquirer sees only a naked stalk of grey-green grass .
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| like |
to like dot |
115 |
V:obj:N |
" Dot liked sharing a cup of tea .
Although Dot liked to preach to Mary , she was one of the few people that Mary listened to on Albert Square .
" Now Miss Alder liked cats and she found herself liking Dot .
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| like |
to like courtier |
114 |
V:obj:N |
Tyranny likes courtiers , flatterers , followers , fawners , and superstition wants believers , disciples , zealots , hypocrites , and subscribers .
From the first I felt that she liked this reckless courtier , whose easy words and actions made me realize more deeply than ever my own heaviness of thought and wit .
If , therefore , he liked ordinary courtiers who exhibited a taste for painting , it was no matter of surprise that he liked to see the delicate hands of the lady occupied in carefully laying on colors .
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| like |
to like crowd |
114 |
V:obj:N |
Three 's the kind of a crowd I like .
And you 'll like the crowd , Don .
But I like the crowd I work with - some of them , anyhow .
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| like |
to like mantle |
114 |
V:obj:N |
Syloson saw how much Darius liked the mantle and gave it to him for free .
The moment he lay down , thereby giving up action for the day , all these things weighed upon him like a great heavy mantle of loneliness .
Her listlessness fell from , her like a mantle , and she watched , motionless !
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| like |
to like magnet |
114 |
V:obj:N |
The thought of seeing her again that very day drew him onwards like a magnet .
" Miss Ashwell was pretty , with her clear blue eyes , gold-brown hair , and a skin so fair and soft , that it made one think of apple-blossoms ; and she had charm , that indefinable something , which like a magnet drew others to her .
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| like |
to like bacon |
114 |
V:obj:N |
People who like bacon should n't leave it lying in deserts in front of hungry Scotchmen .
Mrs. Guthrie always liked the bacon to be very dry and curly , ma'am .
I thought you might like a piece of that bacon you liked so once , dear .
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| like |
to like measles |
114 |
V:obj:N |
And if you have ever had measles you will know that this is not what is called figuring speech , because your eyes do run like mad all the time .
I blushed so painfully that it felt like measles ; but when he saw my embarrassment break out on me like that , a wonderful sad kindness came into his eyes and he stopped laughing .
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| like |
to like brick |
114 |
V:obj:N |
" 'Yes , ' he said , 'I like the coffee , but I do n't like the bricks .
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| like |
to like beak |
114 |
V:obj:N |
Black eyes were set close together under heavy brows , and a long thin nose curved between them like the beak of an unclean bird .
O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder , turban and all , with her train streaming after her , and her nose like the beak of a wherry .
I should add that it feeds only in the water , concealing itself among reeds by the bank , when it darts forward its long neck and seizes with its sharp beak any passing fish , reptile , or water-fowl -- for it likes a variety of food -- or it will swim after them at a great rate .
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| like |
to like horn |
114 |
V:obj:N |
But you do n't like my horns and hoofs .
You like my deer 's horns ?
Most important was the acceptance of the Country Music fans whom Davis had been told , " do n't like horns .
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| like |
to like pistol-shot |
114 |
V:obj:N |
' would snap across it like a pistol-shot .
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| like |
to like young |
113 |
V:obj:N |
She really liked Young and James much better .
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| like |
to like parliament |
113 |
V:obj:N |
Currently , many voices in the Flemish Movement would like the Flemish Parliament to acquire certain sovereign powers as those over language , culture and education .
They would like Parliament to be in permanent session in order that the world might have the daily benefit of their searching investigations .
The Dalai Lama announced he would like the elected Tibetan Parliament in Exile to have more responsibility over administration .
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| like |
to like parent |
113 |
V:obj:N |
Anne would like her parents to : Stop criticizing her friends .
" You never liked my parents , did you ?
We liked her parents , they were loves .
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| like |
to like quicksand |
112 |
V:obj:N |
" I told you you would n't like Quicksands , " said he .
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| like |
to like wood |
112 |
V:obj:N |
And I think you would like the pine woods and the moor .
He likes the deep woods , and seeks the topmost branches .
After that I had a rough scramble , but I like the woods and try to walk as much as possible in my holidays .
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| like |
to like tortoise |
112 |
V:obj:N |
She enjoyed the company of the Ducks , because she could talk with them to her heart 's content ; the Tortoise liked to talk .
Surrounding this rise square houses , gray as if charred , and heaped together like tortoises under round roofs , serving them as a sort of thick shell .
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| like |
to like red |
112 |
V:obj:N |
If I like red , I go at red .
But he really liked Red and had often wished he were one of the Martin family instead of belonging to a neighbor .
I 'd like red Up , down !
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| like |
to like viper |
112 |
V:obj:N |
" " But core I am determined I will not eat , " shouted the puppet , turning upon him like a viper .
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| like |
to like gardening |
112 |
V:obj:N |
He liked gardening , too , and spent a great deal of energy upon his plants .
I have never liked gardening and nowadays do virtually none .
" I 've always liked gardening , " I said .
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| like |
to like contemporary |
112 |
V:obj:N |
( Article ) Kristin Ramsdell , of Library Journal , reviewed the book saying , " Lively pacing , zingy dialog , and Piggy 's hilarious internal monologs are just the things to lighten the winter blues for readers who like their contemporaries on the sassy , slightly paranormal side .
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| like |
to like reflection |
112 |
V:obj:N |
He liked the reflection of the thin tall man .
She had liked her reflection in the glass .
She by no means liked these reflections , but she could not get away from them .
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| like |
to like brave |
111 |
V:obj:N |
Though it was evident that she liked the young Brave , yet was not her love shown by the signs which usually give evidence of the existence of that tender passion .
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| like |
to like nut |
111 |
V:obj:N |
How I would like a nut to throw to him !
On the shelf were some of the nuts that he liked best .
We have a little bear in our wagon , that do n't seem to like nuts .
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| like |
to like partridge |
111 |
V:obj:N |
That 's right ; you like the partridge !
When the king said he liked partridges , partridges were served to him every day .
One does not like partridge every day .
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| like |
to like full moon |
111 |
V:obj:N |
Well , what I like myself ... Must know that my one delight ... Is a merry damsel , -- and small , I do not ask a whale , nor a world-map to study , Nor , like a full moon , A face round and ruddy ; But leanness , downright leanness , No !
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| like |
to like drink of water |
111 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He would have liked a drink of water better .
But I 'd like a drink of water , if you aint too busy .
Maybe you would like a drink of cold water , or perhaps you would like some fresh buttermilk .
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| like |
to like phrase |
111 |
V:obj:N |
The album 's unusual title was a phrase the band heard on BBC Radio 4 and decided they liked .
Then Mrs. Brook showed she liked the phrase .
The people , or if you like the phrase better ; the multitude , wish only for me .
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| like |
to like corn |
111 |
V:obj:N |
The British public would go down before you like corn before the reaper .
She loves to draw , and likes corn and shellfish .
The crows liked Justin 's corn better than any other in Edgewood .
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| like |
to like drink of water |
111 |
V:obj+prep:N |
He would have liked a drink of water better .
But I 'd like a drink of water , if you aint too busy .
Maybe you would like a drink of cold water , or perhaps you would like some fresh buttermilk .
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| like |
to like night |
110 |
V:obj:N |
When people go out for the night they like to come away with being entertained .
Day and night you like to hear of it : young and old , you dream and think of it .
He likes the night , when it is calm and still , and the stars are shining bright and cold all over the sky .
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| like |
to like pool |
110 |
V:obj:N |
He had dipped without knowing into the languid glory of the evening , which like a pool of wealth lay ready to my hand also .
Carl Brutananadilewski Meatwad likes Carl 's pool and car which he does n't get to be in very often .
I confess I like not this pool .
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| like |
to like vine |
110 |
V:obj:N |
But our affections remain , and like vines stretch forth their broken , wounded tendrils for support .
Gardening , berry-picking , and she helped with the gooseberries , the briery vines she did not like .
" " But if he had come while she lay there like a trailing vine , and listened to her voice , and thought upon her words and loved her still .
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| like |
to like candle |
109 |
V:obj:N |
Nancy liked straight little candles and silver stars .
There were lamps in other parts of the room , but Challoner liked candles .
But I 've always liked the candle in doors or windows , like to-night .
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| like |
to like idol |
109 |
V:obj:N |
He likes idol , his type of the opposite sex of the favor is a pretty girl with fore buttocks .
There was one idol Susan specially liked .
" I do n't like their hideous idol , and some day I hope to see it cut down , " he added earnestly .
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| like |
to like nature |
109 |
V:obj:N |
She does n't like the public nature of the position .
George Martin felt that duets are hard to do , but he liked the unusual nature of the melody .
You always liked nature and -- er -- all that , eh ?
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| like |
to like guest |
109 |
V:obj:N |
It was impossible not to like my new guest at once .
Dominique , I do not like your guest .
If Miss Bowater does not like my guests , let her stay away .
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| like |
to like 'if |
109 |
V:obj:N |
' 'If you like I will go and see .
' 'If you like , ' said Sir James .
' 'If you like , ' said Robert impetuously .
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| like |
to like glove |
108 |
V:obj:N |
But if Dares likes not such gloves , let �neas provide others for both of us .
Does our fate 'fit us like a glove ?
Sir Thomas accepted the gloves , but returned the gold , saying that he did not like his gloves to have any lining .
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| like |
to like specie |
108 |
V:obj:N |
Tangent : There was a German man who liked eating endangered species .
Horns Bongos have two heavy and slightly spiralled horns that slope over their back and like in many other antelope species , both the male and female bongos have horns .
There are two species of Chrysolepis , which like many species in the related genera of Castanopsis and Castanea are called chinquapin ( also spelled " chinkapin " ) .
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| like |
to like daddy |
108 |
V:obj:N |
They like my daddy and he worked in de mill for them .
Well , Daddy likes everybody , and Mother likes everybody , except the people who do n't like Daddy .
) Child 1 : " I do n't think I 'd like hugging daddy if he was all ( thoughtfully ) covered in soot like from a fireplace .
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| like |
to like appearance of thing |
108 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I do n't want to alarm you , but I do not like the appearance of things .
He began not at all to like the appearance of things , and fancied at last that he must have got into a different part , of the cavern ; still he thought , " I must have the gold .
Neither the barrister nor Mrs Strong liked the appearance of things , thinking that this mist of the sea resembled one of their own " London particulars , " and betokened a spell of bad weather .
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| like |
to like car |
108 |
V:obj:N |
Flake is an amateur painter and likes classic cars .
But you would n't believe he liked racing cars .
Dee seemed determined not to like the car .
|
| like |
to like appearance of thing |
108 |
V:obj+prep:N |
I do n't want to alarm you , but I do not like the appearance of things .
He began not at all to like the appearance of things , and fancied at last that he must have got into a different part , of the cavern ; still he thought , " I must have the gold .
Neither the barrister nor Mrs Strong liked the appearance of things , thinking that this mist of the sea resembled one of their own " London particulars , " and betokened a spell of bad weather .
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| like |
to like solitude |
107 |
V:obj:N |
The Prefect , on the contrary , aimed at simplicity and liked solitude .
XI I am quite sure that I like solitude .
But I like my solitude too well to burden it with any loss of independence .
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| like |
to like frost |
107 |
V:obj:N |
The apple tree seemed to like the frost .
I should rather like a frost for my part .
The rest of the year I try to ignore them , but after frost I like to make a fresh raid , and get rid of another wheelbarrow load or so .
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| like |
to like roll |
107 |
V:obj:N |
The child was longing to see the blind woman again and to hear how she had liked the rolls .
Ned bore it very well , although he confessed to Charley that he should like a roll in the snow .
Cam says she likes tootsie rolls , and agrees life on Earth really has its points .
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| like |
to like mm |
107 |
V:obj:N |
Erm but do n't like the Mm .
No , well I mean , let 's be honest today , you know , clubs , the opening of pubs in places liked Mm .
where I will bring in my vast postcard collection Mm which like Mm .
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| like |
to like planet |
107 |
V:obj:N |
So this was one scent of the perfumed planet Sinbad did not like .
He was going to like this planet ; he knew it .
In the August issue I liked " Planet of Dread , " by R. F. Starzl , best .
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| like |
to like verse |
107 |
V:obj:N |
You liked the verse of the hymn I sang , did n't you ?
Then I always liked the verse above these verses , which I also have marked , and have quoted many times to others .
But you liked the verses , Mrs. Goddard ?
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| like |
to like sapphire |
107 |
V:obj:N |
If you do n't like sapphires it can be changed .
" " You like sapphires ?
This sapphire is a good one , -- deep , you see ; I like a deep sapphire .
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| like |
to like chorus |
106 |
V:obj:N |
The whole family trooped after us like a classic chorus , but Mr. Clark himself kept the centre of the stage .
The kind of claque that is so common now -- which opens suddenly like a chorus of cicadas in the " Idylls of Theocritus " ?
Thus , she does not confirm the lesbian allusions that seem to emerge from the chorus ( the French verb " aimer " can mean either " to love " or " to like " ) .
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| like |
to like hon |
106 |
V:obj:N |
I should also like my right hon .
I should like hon .
I should like my hon .
|
| like |
to like fiction |
106 |
V:obj:N |
Many science fiction readers were isolated in small communities , knowing nobody else who liked the same fiction .
But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast .
This mix of fact and fiction and reality and fantasy makes the novel popular among many who like postmodern fiction .
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| like |
to like duke |
106 |
V:obj:N |
Should you like the duke for a cousin ?
The Duke I like by far better to Peel .
The Duke I should like to have brought back the king without his following -- that is my position .
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| like |
to like type |
106 |
V:obj:N |
Which type of these lessons do you best like to teach ?
Besides the adventure , there is more or less rollicking humor , of the type all boys like .
She was a remarkably beautiful woman , if you liked the type , and Forrester liked virtually any type .
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| like |
to like skin |
106 |
V:obj:N |
The suit hung upon him like ancient , wrinkled skin .
If you can spare the skin I should like to have it to make myself a robe .
You can see them on any Leopard 's skin you like , Best Beloved .
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| like |
to like injun |
106 |
V:obj:N |
You ai n't like the white Injun , Nevil Steyne , who 's bin Black Fox 's wise man so long .
|
| like |
to like hyena |
106 |
V:obj:N |
" I like the old hyena .
They rushed at it like hungry hyenas , and in an incredibly short time every inch of it was carried off .
|
| like |
to like preaching |
105 |
V:obj:N |
Yet Hiram really liked strong preaching and severe discipline .
But somebody says , I do not like doctrinal preaching .
You would simply say , " I do not like doctrinal preaching .
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| like |
to like among others |
105 |
V:prep:N |
And you may like Edmund Gwenn and Jayne Meadows , among others , in minor roles .
Like some avant-garde filmmakers and like his contemporary , Hou Hsiao-hsien of Taiwan , among precious few others these days , Mr. Wong makes movies , still a young art , that create meaning through visual images , not just words .
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| like |
to like saul |
105 |
V:obj:N |
Mr. Saul was an excellent clergyman , but perhaps his uncle , who had given him his living , might not like Mr. Saul .
It was Mrs. Clavering who suggested to Mr. Saul that perhaps he would like to see Fanny .
" There 'll just be ae bar to my pleasures , A bar that 's aft fill 'd me wi ' fear , He 's sic a hard near-be-gawn miser , He likes his saul less than his gear .
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| like |
to like gossip |
105 |
V:obj:N |
They would so like a free gossip with you .
The American public likes gossip about well-known people , and the Kanes were wealthy and socially prominent .
In Spain we like a good gossip .
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| like |
to like sausage |
105 |
V:obj:N |
Are those the little sausages I like ?
I got through my share without much difficulty - I 've always liked sausage and mash .
That meant : dogs liked sausage too , and it was not seemly to forget him .
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| like |
to like chestnut |
105 |
V:obj:N |
For I 've guessed what you mean about liking chestnuts .
That is the reason they do n't like the chestnut .
How would you like a roast chestnut ?
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| like |
to like flea |
105 |
V:obj:N |
It could die if you cover it in anti-flea powder , but they like their fleas .
Fleas : It becomes apparent fairly early on in the game that Plok does not like Fleas in the slightest .
" " So I do ; but I like Flea better .
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| like |
to like young woman |
105 |
V:obj:N |
We especially liked the young women in the show .
Henry liked handsome young women well enough , but he admired scenery more .
But , to tell the truth , I do n't like young women whom I ca n't understand .
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| like |
to like comfort |
105 |
V:obj:N |
She liked the comfort of a home to herself .
That 's why I like the comfort of restlessness and change .
George likes his comforts ; he is a regular John Bull .
|
| like |
to like housework |
104 |
V:obj:N |
But perhaps you do n't like doing housework .
" There 's plenty of work ; but I like work -- housework .
This is an important point which is crucial to the whole question of attitudes to , and satisfaction with , housework : I like housework .
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| like |
to like of woman |
104 |
V:prep:N |
And on the instant rose that terrible distressing scream of acute agony -- like that of a woman being dismembered .
The flame inside kindled , for the introduction of words , like that of women , is a privilege reserved for the great landowners .
It 's a horrid neighborhood , and I do n't like the idea , anyway , of a woman poking about among drains and cellars .
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| like |
to like gladiator |
104 |
V:obj:N |
Yes , I do n't think the place looks bad , and -- but perhaps Mrs. Sylvester might n't like the gladiator .
The tagline on the front of the paperback version of Gates of Rome read : " If you liked Gladiator you 'll love Emperor " - Sunday Times Excellent reviews helped Gates of Rome reach number two in the Sunday Times Best-seller list .
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| like |
to like course |
104 |
V:obj:N |
The race ended up being 15 miles simply because Cohen liked the course .
Why , of course we all like to look at you .
Being an artist , of course you will like to see the pictures first .
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| like |
to like italian |
104 |
V:obj:N |
You like the Italians , I believe ?
" You would like Italians better , I think !
He liked Italians , from experience of them aboard ship , and he appreciated my letter and my imaginary war record .
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| like |
to like canary |
104 |
V:obj:N |
Rosie liked the canaries better than anything .
" " Why , mamma , " said Angila , opening her eyes very wide , " do n't you like canaries ?
To endure with a grave face this perfectly unreasonable universe wherein destiny has locked me is undoubtedly meritorious ; but to bustle about it like a caged canary , and not ever to falter in your hilarity , is heroic .
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| like |
to like gnat |
104 |
V:obj:N |
'You do n't like gnats !
We shall expect you to like a good many things over here , but we sha n't insist upon your liking the gnats ; though certainly you 'll admit that , as gnats , they are fine , eh ?
|
| like |
to like turnip |
104 |
V:obj:N |
All the Year Round will please those who like a yellow Turnip .
I do not like soft turnips for feeding cattle .
I like a little yellow turnip , " said Miss Pinnegar .
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| like |
to like goblin |
103 |
V:obj:N |
She in turn , falls in love with him , as her time spent with a family of winged centaurs cause her to like only polite goblins .
However , she did not appear to expect an answer , and we were soon settled in the car , Molly , as I have said , looking like a graceful fungus growth , Jack and I like haggard goblins .
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| like |
to like em |
103 |
V:obj:N |
De white folks is still good to me an ' I likes ' em .
If you like em ... I like em .
Now Larry 's taste is just the opposite : he likes em solid and bouncing and rather keen about him .
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| like |
to like manna |
103 |
V:obj:N |
Showers of burned rice and olives from the exploding foe fell upon us like manna in the wilderness .
I , thy lord , like not manna for meat as a Judahn ; I , thy master , drink , and red wine , plenty , and when I thirst .
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| like |
to like thing about him |
103 |
V:obj+prep:N |
The only things I do n't like about him are his front teeth and his relations .
Another thing I like about him is , that he takes a certain intelligent interest in pretty much everything that interests other people .
CECILIA One of the things I like about him is that he wo n't .
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| like |
to like flame of fire |
102 |
V:obj+prep:N |
Out of the tree poured sparks like flames of fire ; these were the ideas and thoughts , borrowed from others , which they had used , and which now got free and rushed away like so many fireworks .
I beheld till thrones were placed , and the ancient of days sat : his garment was white as snow , and the hair of his head like clean wool : his throne like flames of fire : the wheels of it like a burning fire .
That mace , coursed towards him like a flame of fire , and the cannibal struck it with a mace of his own , where-upon the latter ( baffling the former ) proceeded towards Bhima .
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| like |
to like dolphin |
102 |
V:obj:N |
I like dolphins .
he likes dolphins a lot .
|
| like |
to like drop of rain |
102 |
V:obj+prep:N |
In Ireland it was first observed on the leaves of the plant as brown spots of various shapes and sizes , pretty much as if a dilution of acid had fallen upon them like drops of rain .
Taking those who are privileged to see it into the dark , there they suddenly produce it , and it glows like a star , though when looked closely at in daylight seems only like a large drop of rain solidified .
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| like |
to like desert |
102 |
V:obj:N |
And I like the Avenue , just as I like the desert .
The limitless expanse of an idle afternoon stretched out before her like a desert .
Given a cooker , a water-cart and the necessary rations , a British oasis will appear and be prepared to flourish in any old desert you like .
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| like |
to like morn |
102 |
V:obj:N |
The milk rushed faster to her breast ; Joy rose within her like a summer 's morn ; Peace , peace on earth !
The milk rushed faster to her breast ; Joy rose within her like a summer 's morn ; Peace , Peace on Earth !
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| like |
to like neighbour |
102 |
V:obj:N |
Till you came , I found myself very well : I liked my neighbours , and my neighbours humoured me .
Not liking such a neighbour , they had their cable ready to slip and began to set their canvas .
They did not like their neighbours to think that they were doing anything novel .
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to like shooting |
102 |
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If you would like some shooting , there is plenty in the neighborhood .
He is a collector of koi carp and likes clay pigeon shooting .
He liked this rough shooting , and now and then Jake and he went out at nights .
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to like flame of fire |
102 |
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Out of the tree poured sparks like flames of fire ; these were the ideas and thoughts , borrowed from others , which they had used , and which now got free and rushed away like so many fireworks .
I beheld till thrones were placed , and the ancient of days sat : his garment was white as snow , and the hair of his head like clean wool : his throne like flames of fire : the wheels of it like a burning fire .
That mace , coursed towards him like a flame of fire , and the cannibal struck it with a mace of his own , where-upon the latter ( baffling the former ) proceeded towards Bhima .
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to like drop of rain |
102 |
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In Ireland it was first observed on the leaves of the plant as brown spots of various shapes and sizes , pretty much as if a dilution of acid had fallen upon them like drops of rain .
Taking those who are privileged to see it into the dark , there they suddenly produce it , and it glows like a star , though when looked closely at in daylight seems only like a large drop of rain solidified .
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to like henry |
102 |
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Henry and Eleanor spoke many languages and liked discussing law , philosophy , and history .
And now I will tell you that we like your Henry to the utmost , to the very top of the glass , quite brimful .
His father liked Henry so well for a surname that he had him christened Henry , too .
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| like |
to like windmill |
102 |
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This Commoner hath but a shallow mind Which like a windmill moves a lively tongue .
And there 's Concertina-JIMMY , it makes yer want to shout When 'e acts just like a windmill and waves 'is arms about .
In fact , they liked the little windmills , and wagons , and small framed houses that Georgie made , better than sugar-plums and candy .
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| like |
to like weel |
102 |
V:obj:N |
He likes weel to hear of a sharp trick , as most lawyers do .
I would like weel to hear ye twa at it .
I will like weel to hear you .
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| like |
to like cricket |
102 |
V:obj:N |
He loves movies and he likes playing cricket .
" I did n't even know Mandela liked cricket .
But I simply hate seeing the old professional groundsman pretending that the new mob of boys likes cricket , and sweating himself all for nothing .
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| like |
to like salmon |
102 |
V:obj:N |
Back home we used to like salmon better than codfish , because the codfish was always salt .
the white form slid down between them like a big salmon turned out of a net .
I should like some fresh salmon and green peas , now , if I could get 'em .
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| like |
to like blade |
101 |
V:obj:N |
At this thought a feeling of desperate regret shot through her like a red-hot blade , burning her cruelly to the very depths of her being .
" Imperceptibly the monarch 's mien relaxed , for next to a contest with blades he liked the quick play of words .
I like a thin blade .
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| like |
to like old man |
101 |
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They like nice old men who will pet them .
I do n't like old men .
" She do n't like fat old men , " ses Ginger .
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| like |
to like sherry |
101 |
V:obj:N |
Tom felt embarrassed also , feeling that something was coming , and could only think of asking how the Captain liked the sherry .
The Captain liked the sherry very much .
He just said , " Come away in , Sharon , and would you like a wee sherry ?
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| like |
to like donkey |
101 |
V:obj:N |
Frank , on the whole , rather liked the donkey .
Bessie liked a donkey named Kate best of all .
Mr. Gilpin liked the donkey in a forest landscape better than the horse .
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| like |
to like electric shock |
101 |
V:obj:N |
" he said ; his tones thrilled through me like an electric shock .
" exclaimed the spirited girl , with a flash of her eyes that thrilled through me like an electric shock .
" The words flashed through me like an electric shock , and understanding the motive , I turned on the speaker and with the palm of my hand dealt him a slap in the face that sent him staggering back into the arms of his friends .
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| like |
to like preacher |
100 |
V:obj:N |
If a good hearer likes a good preacher , why should a good preacher not like a good hearer ?
When he came out his friend asked him how he liked the preacher .
Like people gradually gravitate to like preachers .
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| like |
to like thunderstorm |
100 |
V:obj:N |
I am hardly ever afraid of anything now -- only I do not like a thunderstorm .
She never liked thunderstorms or shouting crowds .
" I confess that I do not like a thunderstorm .
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| like |
to like corpse |
100 |
V:obj:N |
You 'd have to cut them off their backs , like off a corpse .
King had the self-control and pluck to lie still and drift down on me like a corpse , and I let go the pole in the nick of time to seize him as his head went under .
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| like |
to like bean |
100 |
V:obj:N |
If you do n't stay I shall think it is because you do n't like baked beans .
My Mum likes baked beans , yeah .
I reckon you do n't like soup beans .
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| like |
to like gal |
100 |
V:obj:N |
Barrin ' Katie , you 're the only gal I 'd like for Pepin .
" You would n't like a little gal , Miss ?
" " Yes , Levin , you likes brandy as much as I likes the gals .
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| like |
to like mourner |
100 |
V:obj:N |
He feels that his favourite creatures are doomed to extinction , and though dealing lovingly with them , speaks rather like an attached mourner at their funerals than a physician endeavouring to maintain their flickering vitality .
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| like |
to like leopard |
100 |
V:obj:N |
But I liked the leopards best .
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| like |
to like laughter |
100 |
V:obj:N |
David liked the place , and he liked better still the laughter that came from a room within .
He did n't like her laughter , that was obvious .
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart , that shower at the same time pearls and the soul .
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| like |
to like twin |
100 |
V:obj:N |
And I rather liked the two little girls -- twins , are n't they ?
Fito never liked the twins mostly because they always insulted him .
And we rather like twins .
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