Example sentences of "[to-vb] what it be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 2 | Roberto offered Seve some great advice : ‘ You have to know what it 's like on these links . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to know what it 's like … what th'had to do every day . |
| 4 | ‘ He wants to know what it is like in a jet , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently . |
| 6 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 7 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 8 | Mazzin was out of there in a flash , laughing with his friends who seemed eager to know what it was like in the box . |
| 9 | I was dying to know what it was like . |
| 10 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just one of those things , so try to remember what it 's like next time there 's a panic on , eh ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'VE TRIED to imagine what it 's like to drown . |
| 13 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 14 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 15 | It is virtually impossible for a hearing person to imagine what it is like to be born into silence . |
| 16 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |
| 17 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |
| 18 | Wearing old-fashioned clothes which help them to imagine what it was like to live in the past , they help with simple tasks like carrying in water or logs for the fire , or helping to measure out and mix the ingredients for oatcakes or Welsh cakes which are then cooked on a griddle on the open fire . |
| 19 | Not only do they fail to express what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog , but they also fail to articulate the specific psychological functions involved . |
| 20 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 21 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 22 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
| 23 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |
| 24 | Did you have a word as well to describe what it was like in that jungle ? |
| 25 | They make parachute drops ‘ to see what it 's like ’ . |
| 26 | It will be interesting to see what it 's like when the VL Bus video cards turn up . |
| 27 | I 'm going to see what it 's like in there . |
| 28 | I like to try a different pace very year to see what it 's like . |
| 29 | It may be somewhere to visit once , just to see what it 's like , but it is totally unlike anywhere else , full of remarkable sights . |
| 30 | I 'll have to see what it 's like down the road . |