Example sentences of "it must be like " in BNC.

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1 It must be like this for a minister paying his visits .
2 Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique .
3 Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object .
4 She had caught sight of it only once , from the top of a bus , but she knew , from watching television , from looking at pictures in her mother 's magazines , what it must be like .
5 I can not imagine what it must be like , but of course , facts have to be faced , one 's own life has some kind of vestigial importance , the question of cruelty really does not arise .
6 ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like .
7 I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere .
8 It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own .
9 ‘ You imagine what it must be like yourself , that 's what I do .
10 Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ?
11 If you know they have always enjoyed close companionship until they finally had to live alone , it is not difficult to imagine what it must be like for them to have no one to share their life with any longer , and no hand to hold as their step becomes less sure .
12 Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work .
13 It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’
14 OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring .
15 Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that .
16 It must be like that , they think , because what is said , or written' is not intrinsically meaningful .
17 He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility .
18 She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered .
19 This was what it must be like on a toboggan roaring down the snowy slope of a mountainside .
20 She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him .
21 I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self .
22 It must be like a nightmare .
23 Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter .
24 He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new .
25 I ca n't think what it must be like when Beuno is n't there .
26 There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan .
27 It must be like looking for a needle in a haystack — assuming there 's a bloody needle there . ’
28 I 've only gone since er , erm you know I say Michael 'd be seventeen you know , it must be like twenty years er you know .
29 A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie .
30 I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month .
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