Example sentences of "[pron] it would have been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 2 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 3 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 4 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 5 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 6 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |