Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be somewhere to visit once , just to see what it 's like , but it is totally unlike anywhere else , full of remarkable sights . |
| 2 | Love to see them just to see what it 's like , okay . |
| 3 | Although obviously a very experienced and skilful pilot , David Mason has not forgotten what it is like to be a raw student , and there is a streak of dry humour in his observations of each stage of the training process . |
| 4 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 5 | BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera . |
| 6 | Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like . |
| 7 | just told her she 's to er , she 's got to stop on another hour at night , till five o'clock instead of four . |
| 8 | ‘ We already know what it 's like to accelerate hard . ’ |
| 9 | she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school . |
| 10 | Those who have not experienced this simply can not imagine what it 's like . |
| 11 | You ca n't know that any more than I can ever know what it 's like giving birth to a child . |
| 12 | I have n't seen her handwriting for so long that I can hardly remember what it 's like . |
| 13 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 14 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 15 | Well , you probably know what it 's like , I was just sitting there . |
| 16 | I mean , how can you really know what it 's like without trying it ? |
| 17 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 18 | And a prosthetist said : ‘ You have a great understanding of their problems because no matter how good a prosthetist is , if he 's got two legs he falls short of really knowing what it 's like . ’ |
| 19 | Well , to tell you the truth , I hardly go into Salisbury myself , so I could n't really say what it 's like at close quarters . |
| 20 | You do n't know him he 's in the army . |
| 21 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 22 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot … |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about dolphins , ’ said the leading lady of the entertainment show Give Us A Clue , ‘ but you just feel that they understand what you are going on about . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 26 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 27 | I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney . |
| 28 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 29 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |
| 30 | We do n't know what it is in the vegetables and fruit that is so beneficial , ’ explains Professor James , ‘ but there are several theories . |