Example sentences of "like for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |
| 2 | The experiential approach therefore tries to get pupils in communication with the depths in themselves so that they may have some idea of what that is like for other people , as well as helping them to be more truly " present " in what they are studying . |
| 3 | But what must it be like for other organisations who are now having to make money out of news . |
| 4 | £ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 7 | Of course she does n't know what my life was like for six years or so , although I may get round to telling her , in time . |
| 8 | So what 's it like for young David to be in the big time . |
| 9 | So what 's it like for young David to be in the big time . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't even want to think about what it was like for those 52 hours when Farrah was missing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's a bald statistic which can not really tell what life is like for those bound up in its flat figures . |
| 13 | Yes , of course he is , he is a poor child I hate to think what Christmas is like for some people . |