Example sentences of "it be like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 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 make these conflicting roles , these painful feelings visible ; to feel free from the demands to please others ? |
| 6 | What would it be like to feel those lips stray over her body in warm and tender exploration ? |
| 7 | What would it be like to feel the weight of that lean , powerful body on hers , and lie skin to skin against him ? |
| 8 | 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 ) ? |
| 9 | It 's like kissing the housemaid , thought Franca , as she felt his big animal presence . |
| 10 | It 's like sailing through a maze . |
| 11 | It 's like stumbling across a whole world that you thought had gone for ever . ’ |
| 12 | It 's like watching a proper programme . |
| 13 | Sometimes , with Prince , it 's like watching someone else watching himself masturbate in a mirror . |
| 14 | Other gringos stand over their rucksacks : it 's like watching a road accident . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's like watching these American presidential campaigns , ’ frowns Niall . |
| 16 | ‘ There is definitely something missing — it 's like watching football with no ball . ’ |
| 17 | It 's like reading a biography of a favourite author to learn what makes them tick . |
| 18 | It 's like living your life all over again . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You just do n't know what it 's like living in a town — it 's different . ’ |
| 20 | It 's like living in a bleeding watch factory . |
| 21 | ROS : It 's like living in a public park ! |
| 22 | It 's like living in the Arabian Nights . |
| 23 | P You know it 's like living in a moving caravan , but you 're coming along anyway ! ( not acceptable for shared yacht bookings ) |
| 24 | It 's like living on a time bomb ! |
| 25 | It 's like living in a chapel of rest . ’ |
| 26 | Claire , Annabel and I are supposed to help distribute the food , and let me tell you , at some of these do 's it 's like feeding a pack of hounds . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's like voting for your dad or for your wacky cool uncle who plays the sax . |
| 28 | Or , said someone else , it 's like insisting that the walls of buildings are made thin enough for the FBI to listen through them . |
| 29 | It 's like firing a pot . |
| 30 | 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 . |