Example sentences of "be [prep] to have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 2 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 3 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
| 4 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 5 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 6 | We can see what it might be like to have an intermittently updated world image , by using a stroboscope at night . |
| 7 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 8 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |