Example sentences of "[vb -s] [Wh det] [pron] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader feels what it is like to be the member of a minority group , to live in wartime , to be handicapped , to be hopelessly in love , or to be bullied at school . |
| 2 | FRED FEELS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE TACKLED BY GARRY SCHOFIELD |
| 3 | She knows what he 's like . ’ |
| 4 | But she knows what he 's like . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not going to bother Barnesy , everyone knows what he is like . |
| 6 | The Sports Minister , more than most , knows what it 's like to be in with a dangerous hooker . ’ |
| 7 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 8 | At least Mr Mellor knows what it 's like to be hounded now . |
| 9 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |