Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pers pn] was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 2 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 3 | It was as if only she was not yet to be told which it was to be . |
| 4 | Knowing what it was to be in a universe . |
| 5 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 6 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 7 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |