Example sentences of "to imagine [Wh det] [pron] would be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
2 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
3 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
4 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
5 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
6 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
7 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
8 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
9 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
10 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
11 | The same age as myself , thought Juliet as she read , and tried to imagine what it would be like . |
12 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |