Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 3 | They try to empty what it is in their stomach and it |
| 4 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 5 | However , on a more serious note , I do understand what it is like to have unwanted admirers . |
| 6 | And I 've forgotten what it is to be impulsive . |
| 7 | They have seen what it is like to be unable to meet their mortgage repayments and be faced with redundancy and unemployment . |
| 8 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |