Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] would [verb] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 2 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 3 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 4 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 5 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 6 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 7 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 8 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 9 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |