Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 2 | Because if if it broke it 'd be like all my fault . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew it would be like this , ’ she said . |
| 4 | " I never knew it would be like that . " |
| 5 | I suppose I thought it would be like a hospital ward , but it 's quite like an ordinary nursery , really , except it 's so dull . |
| 6 | I thought it might be like a clan gathering … but why the hell should it be . |
| 7 | I thought it might be like one of these clubs , you know . |
| 8 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 9 | This is just what I thought it 'd be like on the streets of Chicago . |
| 10 | Erm I just erm read the question like and I just I I I thought it 'd be like a triangle , you work it out on the triangle and then I thought no that |
| 11 | The first girl said it would be like marrying her brother so she would not . |
| 12 | ‘ No one ever said it would be like this ! ’ |