Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 33 | ‘ Wait till we start campaigning , ’ Osbern of Eu had said to Thorfinn , ‘ and then you 'll know what it 's like to live again . ’ |
| 34 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 35 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 36 | The witty ones ask what it 's like to fly . |
| 37 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 38 | ‘ We already know what it 's like to accelerate hard . ’ |
| 39 | Suggest that in small groups they make an image to show what it 's like to experience conflicting feelings — of sorrow , loss , relief , excitement , hope , expectation . |
| 40 | Cannon said yesterday : ‘ We both know what it 's like to fight council planning officers . |
| 41 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 42 | He looked at her and said in a hard voice , ‘ I do n't suppose you know what it 's like to feel simply damned useless . ’ |
| 43 | Is this what it 's like to have time on your hands ? |
| 44 | He knows exactly what it 's like to have to keep an eye open in every dark , steamy nook and cranny for cancer squatters . |
| 45 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I 'VE TRIED to imagine what it 's like to drown . |
| 49 | This must be what it 's like to play a variety club on a Saturday night . |
| 50 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 51 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 52 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 53 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 54 | If the questioner persists by saying : ‘ At least explain to me what it 's like to believe in God ’ , they will refuse the offer once again . |
| 55 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 56 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 57 | Apart from the influence of many young voters who have no memory of what it was like to live under a Labour government , the biggest thing going for Labour in this election is an Englishman 's sense of fair play . |
| 58 | I think Casualty was very much engaged with what it was like to live under Thatcherism . |
| 59 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 60 | He was also learning the hard way what it was like to live with the ‘ changeability of women ’ . |