Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to relinquish status and income , both of which are like to fall if you take a step down or sideways or you stop on the career ladder . |
| 2 | You are like to die in any event , if you will not look after yourself better ! ’ |
| 3 | Where you keep the major portion of your money also depends upon what additional services you are like to require from your ‘ bank ’ . |
| 4 | Armed with a limited amount of fire-and-forget homing missiles and a machine gun that 's about as much use as Robert Maxwell 's swimming instructor , you need to blast away for all you 're worth to beat the ridiculously short time limit . |
| 5 | ‘ Faith , and so do I , but we 're like to pay dear for it . |
| 6 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 7 | ‘ How do I know what they 're like to live with ? ’ |
| 8 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 9 | What would it be like to explore and learn every inch of him with her fingertips , to touch and taste him and fill her lungs with the delicious musky scent that was uniquely his ? |
| 10 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 11 | He wondered , what would it be like to fall in love with Immacolata ? |
| 12 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 13 | What would it be like to make these conflicting roles , these painful feelings visible ; to feel free from the demands to please others ? |
| 14 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 15 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |
| 16 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 17 | But they take it so , so strongly , they become so aggressive that it 's , it 's almost more trouble than it 's worth to mention it to people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |
| 20 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 21 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 22 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 24 | ‘ Wait till we start campaigning , ’ Osbern of Eu had said to Thorfinn , ‘ and then you 'll know what it 's like to live again . ’ |
| 25 | Imagine what 's it 's like to tackle him . ’ |
| 26 | If the questioner persists by saying : ‘ At least explain to me what it 's like to believe in God ’ , they will refuse the offer once again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 30 | 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 . |