Example sentences of "it [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would it be like to be In Love with Dionne rather than just loving her ? |
| 2 | But the government troops are devils in the thoroughness of their searching and destroying — would it be like ‘ Forty-six again ? |
| 3 | A return seemed unlikely , but at the same time there was this intriguing question : just what would it be like to be up there , 20 pitches out , on a wall as hard as many a belted route , but with no bolts ? |
| 4 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 5 | Will it be like this on Thursday ? |
| 6 | ‘ What will it be like ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 7 | How can it be like both ? ’ |
| 8 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 9 | In a few generations , of course , people would want girls again , and values and fashions would change … but in the meantime , what would it be like to be one of an endangered species ? |
| 10 | What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham ? |
| 11 | 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 ) ? |
| 12 | ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ? |
| 13 | If she had failed to love her mother , she the missionary , what must it be like for people who , without God , had not even got a Christian obligation to try ? |
| 14 | What must it be like for Joshua ? |
| 15 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 16 | What must it be like to be imprisoned here , day after day , month after month ? |
| 17 | What would it be like to make these conflicting roles , these painful feelings visible ; to feel free from the demands to please others ? |
| 18 | What would it be like to be Emma Watt , fifty years old , sad and alone and brightly squeezed into her too-small flat ? |
| 19 | What would it be like to be the purple girl , frigid from anxiety , and child-bearing behind her ? |
| 20 | Sometimes , overhearing the heckling and the comments in the street , she had wondered , What must it be like , to have a man think so dirty about you ? |
| 21 | He wondered , what would it be like to fall in love with Immacolata ? |
| 22 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 23 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |
| 24 | What would it be like to explore and learn every inch of him with her fingertips , to touch and taste him and fill her lungs with the delicious musky scent that was uniquely his ? |
| 25 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 26 | What must it be like ? |
| 27 | What must it be like to be them ? ’ |
| 28 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 29 | Do not keep saying to yourself ‘ But how can it be like that ? ’ because you will get … into a blind alley from which no-one has yet escaped . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |