Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [Wh det] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 2 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | I know what it is to be cursed with that temper . ’ |
| 4 | I know what it is like to love and be loved . |
| 5 | ‘ I was captain of Darlington for many years so I know what it is like in his job . |
| 6 | I wonder what it is like , living in a building built five hundred years ago ? ’ |
| 7 | Well I have n't been so I wonder what it is like ? |
| 8 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |
| 9 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 10 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 11 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 12 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 13 | Can we imagine what it is like to have two non-overlapping visual fields ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 16 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 17 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |