Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 2 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 3 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 4 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 5 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 6 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 7 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 8 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 9 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 10 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 11 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 12 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 13 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 14 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
| 15 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 16 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
| 17 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 18 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |
| 19 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 20 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 21 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 22 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 23 | Ignore what it feels like , concentrate on the journey . |
| 24 | He remembers what it feels like to experience intense hunger and profound thirst , irrational loathing and sublime contentment . |
| 25 | He remembers vividly ( not necessarily articulately ) what it feels like to be isolated , to be partnered , to be set adrift , to be reclaimed . |
| 26 | It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too . |
| 27 | But unless you know how to do this , and what it feels like , this is very difficult to gauge . |
| 28 | It needs to be , for an unfit smallholder has little hope of success , and too few people know what it feels like to be really fit . |
| 29 | So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig . |
| 30 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |