Example sentences of "what it would be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 2 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 3 | One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so . |
| 4 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 5 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 6 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 7 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ? |
| 8 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 9 | In fact and in fiction , not only in the Regency but in the eighteenth century as well , the upper classes seem rarely to have ventured beneath an impoverished roof , much less imagined what it would be like to live beneath one . |
| 10 | Maryon felt quite apprehensive about the experiment and wondered what it would be like to live with Alan during the diet . |
| 11 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 12 | You really start to think about what it would be like to die . |
| 13 | Quite what it would be like to give up material bodies I shall not consider . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 15 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 16 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 17 | Every time she mentioned babies and what it would be like to have their own one day , Stephen changed the subject or yet another crisis loomed which he had to dash off and deal with . |
| 18 | In quiet moments , they wonder what it would be like to have such genius as his . |
| 19 | One of these away at the back used to what it would be like to have teeth . |
| 20 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 21 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 22 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 23 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 24 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 25 | Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question . |
| 26 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 27 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
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| 29 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 30 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |