Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can imagine what he was like to be inside . |
| 2 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 3 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 4 | But the pleasures are , of course , those of youth , and Lewis at the age of forty seems to have forgotten what it was like to be young . |
| 5 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 6 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 7 | What would Keith say if he really knew what it was like to be a Slattery ? |
| 8 | What it was like to be in the hot seat in front of his permanent sub-committee was described by the editor of the New York Post , James Wechsler : ‘ The grand inquisitor was by turns truculent , contemptuous and bland . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to show the reader what it was like to be me . |
| 10 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 11 | But already she knew what it was like to be going home . |
| 12 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 13 | A bit nosey , that was all , and Margaret understood what it was like to be nosey . |
| 14 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 15 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 16 | She lifted her chilly hands into the air and proclaimed : ‘ I rrremember what it was like to be a toad . ’ |
| 17 | If he was a nonentity , one of the lowest of the low , then he wanted his work to reveal what it was like to be such an unfortunate . |
| 18 | Four months after he was cleared on appeal , David Reed tells Liz Fisher what it was like to be in the dock |
| 19 | For Paul Arkwright , recipient of honorary degrees , had known very well what it was like to be a student , and poor . |
| 20 | Asked what it was like to be home , Shane gestured to the crowd and said : ‘ Do I really need to answer that ? ’ |
| 21 | There are times now when I ca n't even remember what it was like to be a wife . |
| 22 | How she had wanted him to kiss her , she did n't know what it was like to be kissed and Craig Grenfell was such a handsome man . |
| 23 | And Spencer would be caught , there was no doubting that , and then he would learn what it was like to be imprisoned behind grey walls and iron bars . |
| 24 | Based on his wartime diaries , Ron records what it was like to be in the nose of a Lancaster at night over Germany , and to be the radar eyes in the navigation cabin . |
| 25 | I saw that someone like Richard Pryor could just go out on stage and talk about what it was like to be Richard Pryor . |
| 26 | We were learning what it was like to be legionnaires . |
| 27 | I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it was like to be a child between say the age of five and ten . |
| 28 | He also knew what it was like to be alive and young . |
| 29 | In this case , the aim is not to collect mundane detail for its own sake — to say what it was like to be a Young Conservative at the time of the fieldwork in the early 1980s . |
| 30 | If it was going to happen , it must happen and then she would know what it was like to be kissed , which she did not know , now . |