Example sentences of "what it must be like [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
2 | ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’ |
3 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
4 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
5 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |
6 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
7 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
8 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
9 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |