Example sentences of "what it [vb past] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 2 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 3 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 4 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 5 | That would n't be easy ; even now he was beginning to remember what it had been like when he 'd been small and afraid of the dark , unable to sleep without a nightlight . |
| 6 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 7 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 8 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |