Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun] [modal v] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine what her own party would be like when ( if ) someone wanted to marry her . |
| 3 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 4 | I could n't even imagine what this sensation might be like any more , so utterly had it evaporated . |
| 5 | I had no interest in what this house should be like wishing only for a place and quickly to lay my head and could hardly rouse myself to inspect it . |
| 6 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 7 | They live in a world of echoes , and probably their brains can use echoes to do something akin to " seeing " images , although it is next to impossible for us to " visualize " what those images might be like . |