Example sentences of "imagine [Wh det] [pers pn] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the immortals were capable of reproduction there would be a colossal population explosion : imagine what it would be like if every human being ever born were still alive ! |
| 2 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 3 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 4 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 5 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
| 6 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 7 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 8 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 9 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 10 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
| 11 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 12 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 13 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
| 14 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 15 | The same age as myself , thought Juliet as she read , and tried to imagine what it would be like . |
| 16 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not imagine what it would be like without it . |
| 18 | Can any of your readers imagine what it would be like to be thrown into a ‘ concentration camp ’ for 20 years without trial , and , then the door of that awful place being opened and you are told you may go ? |
| 19 | Can you imagine what it would be like , for both of us ( and both of them ) , if we did what you suggest ? |
| 20 | We can not imagine what it would be like . |
| 21 | She could n't imagine what it would be like having to get into bed with the elegant stranger who turned to speak to her now and then . |
| 22 | I doubt it , because it is inconceivable , just as you can not imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and then gifted with sight ( but of course I can ) . |
| 23 | People in the village could imagine what it would be like , the Germans taking all their supplies . |
| 24 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 25 | His voice was courteous to the point of diffidence , and Nenna , giving way a little , let herself imagine what it would be like to be on Richard 's staff , and to be directed in everything else by Louise , and to ebb and flow without volition , in the warmth of love and politeness . |
| 26 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |