Example sentences of "[vb base] what [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forget what they were for . |
| 2 | Forget what it 's like learning a long part . |
| 3 | Imagine what it 's like if I say it 's right lip and he 's read it an inch left . |
| 4 | Try and imagine what it 's like . |
| 5 | Imagine what it 's like ( if you are a Tory ) to be unable to drive down the street without every red or orange poster in every window appearing to leap out and stab you in the heart . |
| 6 | Imagine what it 's like to be 45 … |
| 7 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 8 | It 's exhausting enough for you ; imagine what it is like for someone who is n't used to your kids . |
| 9 | She could , in a way , imagine what it was like caring for the man before her . |
| 10 | What it says is Man deþ swá hé byþ þonne hé mót swá hé wile , ‘ Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes ’ , or more colloquially ‘ you show what you 're like when you can do what you like ’ . |
| 11 | He will almost always be in the life you describe what he is as a literary concept , a private investigator , a man with all the freedom of action of the amateur detective of old ( see how the blueprint formula still has its influence ) but who uses it actively . |
| 12 | Look what there is against her . ’ |
| 13 | Look what it 's like when we 're making deliveries . |
| 14 | The theories that have guided these insights into the mechanisms of psychotic and creative thought do not , of course , specify what it is about the brain that might account for the differences observed in schizophrenic and schizotypal individuals . |
| 15 | I remember what he 's like . |
| 16 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 17 | remember what it was like during the nineteen twenty six strike ? |
| 18 | There are still some people who remember what it was like in the 1940s … |
| 19 | ‘ Terrorists hardly ever get what they 're after . ’ |
| 20 | He issued a call : ‘ Most of us know what we are against . |
| 21 | ‘ You know what we were like at that age . |
| 22 | Do you think you know what they 're about do n't you . |
| 23 | I know what they 're for Chris , but I do n't know what he 's doing with them . |
| 24 | But they wo n't share , you know what they 're like in my team it 's , it 's |
| 25 | For God 's sake you know what they 're like in the village . |
| 26 | ‘ You know what they 're like . |
| 27 | ‘ I said , ‘ Forgive me , madam , but I 've got a blasted son myself , and I know what they 're like . |
| 28 | But he has got the continental grammar sort of Italians , you know what they 're like . |
| 29 | I 've got a couple of Siamese moggies , I know what they 're like . |
| 30 | They 'll only try to talk you out of going to Czechoslovakia to do this job for me — you know what they 're like . ’ |