Example sentences of "know what it be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 2 | ‘ Wait till we start campaigning , ’ Osbern of Eu had said to Thorfinn , ‘ and then you 'll know what it 's like to live again . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |
| 8 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 9 | Cannon said yesterday : ‘ We both know what it 's like to fight council planning officers . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 12 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 13 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 14 | He looked at her and said in a hard voice , ‘ I do n't suppose you know what it 's like to feel simply damned useless . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We already know what it 's like to accelerate hard . ’ |
| 16 | I know what it is like to love and be loved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 21 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 22 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |