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Example sentences for "she liked"

  • Augusta Maturin's chief extravagance was books; she could not bear to await her turn at the library, and if she liked a book she wished to own it.

  • She liked Caldwell's praise of Ditmar, yet she spoke a little doubtfully.

  • She liked me before she found out where I lived.

  • She liked doing it after the confinement of the sick chamber, where she was not now required by reason of her mother's improvement.

  • She liked to hear the chanting--such as it was--and the old Psalms, and to join in the Morning Hymn.

  • He had come up to town but for three or four days; he had been absolutely obliged to be absent after the other time; yet he would, now that he was face to face with her, stay on as much longer as she liked.

  • She liked him, however, to think her silly, for that gave her the margin which at the best she would always require; and the only difficulty about this was that he hadn't enough imagination to oblige her.

  • She liked to be as she was--if it could only have lasted.

  • She liked to tell a man's story, and the other women could not but laugh at her, for she was undeniably good company, and nobody ever questioned the taste of anything she ever said or did.

  • She went where she liked, alone if she liked, and during a visit to Rome she had lured desirable men from ladies who were engaged in flirting with them.

  • Nick said that he would be delighted; and offered to send Miss Wilkins as many books as she liked to her boarding house.

  • As Carmen said, she liked to talk by moonlight; and now, over in the east, behind magnolia and palm trees, the moon had been born while the sun died in the west.

  • She enjoyed being free, and vague, able to stop as long or as short a time as she liked on the way.

  • When she went to concerts, she liked to go alone, or at least to be let alone, to sit back passively and allow the variegated tissue of sound to envelop her spirit as it would.

  • She liked my society because she used to shew me the letters she wrote, and I was very careful to admire her style.

  • I would have been ashamed to let her see my bashfulness; I let her do as she liked, not foreseeing what would happen.

  • She liked to offer trifling presents to the other boarders, and the money allowed her to gratify that innocent taste.

  • I was a willing dupe, and assured her that if she liked it it could not be too dear, and that I would pay.

  • But if Heidi wanted to return home she could do so at once, and then she could take something she liked back to grandmother.

  • Clara had to rest for a certain time during the afternoon, and during this interval, as Fraulein Rottenmeier informed Heidi, the latter might amuse herself as she liked.

  • She liked Tiedeman's flat: the big outer room, curtained with thick gentian blue and thin violet.

  • She liked walking with him, she liked to be seen walking with him, as she used to like being seen walking with Roddy and Mark, because she was proud of them, proud of belonging to them.

  • She was to have illimitable money at her command, to spend and give away as she liked.

  • I let her flirt as much as she liked; and when she began to be seriously sentimental I took wing for the East?

  • But it was a noble room, and in her studious hours Mary loved to sit here, walled round with books, and able to consult or dip into as many volumes as she liked.

  • She liked me, I think, a little; but she did not like the notion of an obscure life as the wife of a hardworking professional man.

  • She could not go backward now; she liked a great deal of what lay before her; and there was nothing for her to like if she went back.

  • She began to be afraid of herself, and to find out a certain difficulty in doing as she liked.

  • She liked to accept as a belief what was really no more than delicate feigning.

  • To the world she would do her best to assume omniscience in its ways, but to him, in her present mood, she liked to play the ignorant, uninitiated little thing.

  • She could even detect it in Mr. Critchlow, whom, for the rest, she liked, admiring the brutal force of his character.

  • She liked to feel him and to gaze at him, and to smell that faint, uncleanly odour of sweat that hung in his clothes.

  • Moreover, she liked him; she liked him very much and thought him a very fine specimen of a man.

  • She liked Jenkins so much, that she wanted to be with him.

  • He took her up to his room, and let her choose the bird she liked best.

  • He was very shy of Miss Laura, but Mr. Wood held him firmly, and let her stroke his head as much as she liked.

  • Beata had to consider a moment in order to understand quite what Colin meant; she liked to understand things clearly, but she was not always very quick at doing so.

  • She liked kind, old Mr. Furnivale, and she had been very fond of his pretty daughter.

  • But mixed with this was a sense of importance--she liked to think that she was very good for not feeling what she said "some little girls" would have felt.

  • While they ate and rooted in the dirt, Betty slept as long as she liked, with no school, no errands, no patchwork to do.

  • She liked it, and kept hidden till night; then she went home, and opened the little window in the store closet, and got in and took as many good things to eat and carry away as she liked.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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