Example sentences of "be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 2 | What would it be like to explore and learn every inch of him with her fingertips , to touch and taste him and fill her lungs with the delicious musky scent that was uniquely his ? |
| 3 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 4 | I just wonder whether you realise what you 're taking on — what it would really be like to live up here . ’ |
| 5 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 6 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 9 | When his plan is compared with Gandy 's ( Fig. 27a ) , the main difference lies in the care he has taken to consider what it might be like to live inside . |
| 10 | Maryon felt quite apprehensive about the experiment and wondered what it would be like to live with Alan during the diet . |
| 11 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 12 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 15 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 16 | ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’ |
| 17 | He wondered , what would it be like to fall in love with Immacolata ? |
| 18 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 19 | One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so . |
| 20 | You really start to think about what it would be like to die . |
| 21 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 22 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 23 | Quite what it would be like to give up material bodies I shall not consider . |
| 24 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 25 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 26 | He was wondering what it would be like to kiss her when Fidelma repeated her warning . |
| 27 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 28 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |
| 29 | Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question . |
| 30 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |