Example sentences of "[modal v] it be [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 2 | 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 ) ? |
| 3 | He wondered , what would it be like to fall in love with Immacolata ? |
| 4 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | What would it be like to make these conflicting roles , these painful feelings visible ; to feel free from the demands to please others ? |
| 7 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 8 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |