Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 2 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 3 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 4 | It does n't offer you a definition , but by the end of the chapter you should be able to give your own definition of what it would be like if you were more assertive . |
| 5 | I simply regarded these absences as a lesson , a foretaste of what it would be like when they became a permanence . |
| 6 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 7 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 8 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 9 | Looking at what Micky 's like and everything , when I thought before what it would be like and what the situation actually is , I think basically you 're in another world , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 11 | One of these away at the back used to what it would be like to have teeth . |
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| 13 | You really start to think about what it would be like to die . |