Example sentences of "like for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we knew what life was like for the children of Vietnam — and we were determined to see change . |
| 2 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 3 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 6 | Well do n't worry dear it wo n't matter to you what the weather 's like for the next week will it ? |
| 7 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |