Example sentences of "[verb] what it be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 2 | ‘ Wait till we start campaigning , ’ Osbern of Eu had said to Thorfinn , ‘ and then you 'll know what it 's like to live again . ’ |
| 3 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 4 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 5 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 6 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 8 | He had lost so many times , he had forgotten what it was like to win . |
| 9 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'VE TRIED to imagine what it 's like to drown . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 13 | However , on a more serious note , I do understand what it is like to have unwanted admirers . |
| 14 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Cannon said yesterday : ‘ We both know what it 's like to fight council planning officers . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We already know what it 's like to accelerate hard . ’ |
| 23 | I know what it is like to love and be loved . |
| 24 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 25 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 26 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 27 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ And terrible though it is , Mama , is n't it better to feel like this now than never to have known what it was like to love someone so much ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |