Example sentences of "[vb infin] what it be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wait till we start campaigning , ’ Osbern of Eu had said to Thorfinn , ‘ and then you 'll know what it 's like to live again . ’ |
| 2 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 7 | However , on a more serious note , I do understand what it is like to have unwanted admirers . |
| 8 | Indeed , many will recall what it was like to prepare RAF food . |
| 9 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 10 | Can we imagine what it is like to have two non-overlapping visual fields ? |
| 11 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |