Example sentences of "what it be [prep] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 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 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Later , the explanations the young Americans of Charlie Company gave were singularly mundane : ‘ I wanted to see what it was like to shoot someone … |
| 7 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 10 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |