Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh det] it have been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
2 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
3 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
4 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
5 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |