Example sentences of "we [verb] [Wh det] it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 2 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 3 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 4 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 5 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |
| 6 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 7 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 8 | Can we imagine what it is like to have two non-overlapping visual fields ? |
| 9 | We see what it 's like , and if it 's not very good we 'll watch something else . |
| 10 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 11 | Upstairs Downstairs , one of the most popular costume dramas ever , lets us see what it 's like , from both ends of the social scale . |