Liked-to Sentence Examples

If it had been anyone else, I would have accepted that, but she liked to control people.

She liked to kiss, and she certainly felt good molded to him that way.

Why he liked to carry her was still a mystery.

Though he did live in a tent, he liked to think he lived as comfortable as possible.

It was something she would have liked to do, but Alex insisted that it was too dangerous.

Alex liked to be in control — not of her, but of life in general.

Alex liked to be in full control.

No, he liked to do the chasing.

She could see the kid doing it, though she liked to think Xander was able to counter anything like that.

He did not like to depend on statesmen's promises, which are proverbially uncertain of fulfilment; he as little liked to retrench; and he was wearied of parliament, where he had never given any but silent votes.

He would have liked to organize a big move against the Bolsheviks from the west, but such a move could not be made while the Entente Powers were resolved to keep Germany out, and while they sympathized with all the new organizations hostile to RussiaEsthonia, Latvia and Poland.

It is also certain that he liked to excite applause in the galleries by some platitude about the "glorious Revolution" or the "Protestant succession."

His visiting espionage, as unkind critics put it - his secret diplomatic mission, as he would have liked to have it put himself - began in the summer of 1722, and he set out for it in company with a certain Madame de Rupelmonde, to whom he as usual made love, taught deism and served as an amusing travelling companion.

Whatever the form of a wave, we could always force it to travel on with that form unchanged, and with any velocity we chose, if we could apply any " external " force we liked to each particle, in addition to the " internal " force called into play by the compressions or extensions.

All kings liked to win the good word of the Greeks.

For, though that celebrated personage would have liked to be called, not " sophist " but " political philosopher," and tried to fasten the name of " sophist " upon his opponents the Socratics, it is clear from his own statement that he was commonly ranked with the sophists, and that he had no claim, except on the score of superior popularity and success, to be dissociated from the other teachers of political rhetoric. It is true that he was not a political sophist of the vulgar type, that as a theorist he was honest and patriotic, and that, in addition to his fame as a teacher, he had a distinct reputation as a man of letters; but he was a professor of political rhetoric, and, as such, in the phraseology of the day, a sophist.

He would have liked to make parliament, no doubt, a mere meeting for the voting of taxation with the smallest possible friction.

He would have liked to think his ego had caused the rage, but he knew it was something much more complicated.

Alex liked to be in control — not of her, but of life in general.

They liked to indulge in fine cuisine.

He liked to indulge in escapist fantasy.

He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge.

Boys tended to play football and some liked to perform handstands against a wall or do somersaults.

Wow, what a mouthful, I'd have liked to have seen their headed notepaper!

Even tho we were no longer little kittens, we still liked to give a new place the old once-over.

I've always liked to impress people, a childish vise I have never outgrown.

On Sundays he liked to listen to the evangelical preachers, who used to have open air congregations along the seafront.

Bacon's overriding preoccupation was with what he liked to call " the brutality of fact " .

The deeply sad opening to the second movement was so well sculpted we would have liked to hear more.

I would have liked to have seen a graph or a table for dissolved oxygen concentrations in surface seawater included.

A depression habit spiral I liked to switch off the lights when I was alone in the house and put the saddest music on.

He'd injured his face in a climbing accident and was quite unintelligible, but no-one liked to ask him to stop lecturing.

They liked to consider themselves as the Lord's anointed, placed high above all ordinary mortals even of the most exalted rank; and when Constantinople fell into the hands of the infidel they began to imagine that, as the most powerful potentates of the Eastern Orthodox world they were the protectors of the Orthodox faith and the political heirs of the East Roman emperors.

He had written many stories which people at that time liked to read.

When only a child he liked to stand by the river and see the ships sailing past.

As children, we had all these things we liked to do that interested and excited us.

Belle, our dog, my other companion, was old and lazy and liked to sleep by the open fire rather than to romp with me.

I was pleased with anything that made a noise and liked to feel the cat purr and the dog bark.

I also liked to keep my hand on a singer's throat, or on a piano when it was being played.

I liked to visit the Midway Plaisance.

The horse's name was Prince and he was gentle and liked to trot very fast.

Even when she did not fully understand words or ideas, she liked to set them down as though she did.

Some one asked her if she liked to study.

She knew that I was much troubled, and would have liked to stay near me; but I thought it best for her to sit by herself.

She also felt a Greek chariot, and the charioteer would have liked to take her round the ring; but she was afraid of "many swift horses."

She liked to feel the cat purr; and if by chance she felt a dog in the act of barking, she showed great pleasure.

She always liked to stand by the piano when some one was playing and singing.

Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have liked to.

Mademoiselle Bourienne knew a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she liked to repeat to herself.

Prince Andrew, who liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance and being well disposed toward Boris, who had managed to please him the day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted.

Pierre would have liked to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride subscribed the same amount as the others.

It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.

He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved.

Natasha liked to test her power over him.

She liked to be with him better than with the others, and when alone with him she sometimes laughed.

The prince allowed no one at Bald Hills to drive with ringing bells; but on a long journey Alpatych liked to have them.

He liked to talk and he talked well, adorning his speech with terms of endearment and with folk sayings which Pierre thought he invented himself, but the chief charm of his talk lay in the fact that the commonest events--sometimes just such as Pierre had witnessed without taking notice of them--assumed in Karataev's a character of solemn fitness.

He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life.

I would have liked to say Peterson 490 strobe tuner but have to say Peterson VS-1.

My dad liked to say Louie was as stubborn as the mules he drove through his fields.

He liked to teeter on the edge, He 's supposed to stay behind the hedge.

He 'd injured his face in a climbing accident and was quite unintelligible, but no-one liked to ask him to stop lecturing.

Although he was from New Jersey, he liked to affect a Southern accent sometimes. He thought it made him sound sexier.

The author liked to reminisce on stories from his childhood while writing books.

Figurines - Like the busts, ancient Egyptians also liked to honor their gods and their leaders with small figurines depicting them in battle or simply in a regal pose.

He was very imaginative and he liked to pretend he was policemen and in the army.

Obviously, during this time period, Neil Patrick Harris liked to keep busy.

This led to small roles on television and film, but Depp felt that he wasn't getting as many parts as he would have liked to.

The fact that she was also a blonde bombshell who liked to dress in provocative clothing certainly helped her to gain popularity as well.

Fussy outerwear made of heavy furs was giving way to slim wool coats, although many men still liked to throw a raccoon coat over their slim suits.

I would have liked to see things from different angles, but this flaw is common in these types of games.

However, it did prevent him from taking role after role that he would have liked to have taken, and that would have significantly advanced his career.

Think about your own children or your own childhood and what you would have liked to receive as a youngster.

Traditionally, swingers were couples who liked to swap partners with other pairs, either for a one-time sexual encounter or for ongoing play.

She liked to imagine owning a real version someday.

If you've heard of "Sweater Girls," this is the type of bra they liked to wear-cone-shaped to draw attention to the breasts under clingy fabrics.

Hatch, while not a nudist by beliefs, liked to walk around naked.

I would have liked to see a completely computer animated Phoenix instead of the obviously fake model bird used in the scenes with the actors.

When she talked to people, she liked to do it face to face.

It wasn't something she liked to do, as his hand was so cold and lifeless.

Alex liked to ride in the morning, so he would probably be over early.

No one, said his younger brother Lucien, liked to thwart him.

The basketball players liked to bluster about their skills but few could make the shot.

The activity tray (basically just two toys connected to the front tray) fared somewhat better as my baby liked to have something to fiddle with as he was swinging.