Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] like [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 3 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 4 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 5 | We forget what life must have been like for people without anaesthetics and painkillers . |
| 6 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 7 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 8 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 9 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 10 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 11 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
| 12 | But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it |
| 13 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |
| 14 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 15 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 16 | It is difficult to say what her speech would have been like in 1960 when she first arrived in London . |