Example sentences of "like to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 2 | What would it be like to be In Love with Dionne rather than just loving her ? |
| 3 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 4 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 5 | A return seemed unlikely , but at the same time there was this intriguing question : just what would it be like to be up there , 20 pitches out , on a wall as hard as many a belted route , but with no bolts ? |
| 6 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 7 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 8 | But the pleasures are , of course , those of youth , and Lewis at the age of forty seems to have forgotten what it was like to be young . |
| 9 | Imagine , for a moment , what it must be like to be the parent of young children in a poor community in Bangladesh or Mozambique . |
| 10 | The Sports Minister , more than most , knows what it 's like to be in with a dangerous hooker . ’ |
| 11 | THE energy secretary found out this week what it is like to be stomped on by Washington 's green lobby . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't you remember , Mum and Dad , what it was like to just talk , and gossip , and say sweet things without saying really anything , and yet saying all the important things ? ’ |
| 13 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 14 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 15 | What would Keith say if he really knew what it was like to be a Slattery ? |
| 16 | What it was like to be in the hot seat in front of his permanent sub-committee was described by the editor of the New York Post , James Wechsler : ‘ The grand inquisitor was by turns truculent , contemptuous and bland . |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted to show the reader what it was like to be me . |
| 18 | In the example above , so that children might imagine what it is like to be blind , the teacher invites them to deprive themselves temporarily of their sight . |
| 19 | I looked on these two girls with awe , and shuddered to think what it would be like to be in their position . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's what it sounded like to me . ’ |
| 21 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 22 | But this is like to be a boring trip , see you — business , just . |
| 23 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 24 | They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos . |
| 25 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 26 | A commonplace fault among schedule designers , as mentioned earlier , is not thinking enough about what it is like to be on the receiving end of the questions . |
| 27 | And that is exactly what it sounds like to the new mother , until she is persuaded by others , against every instinct she possesses , that this is ‘ normal ’ or ‘ naughty ’ … . |
| 28 | The reader feels what it is like to be the member of a minority group , to live in wartime , to be handicapped , to be hopelessly in love , or to be bullied at school . |
| 29 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 30 | But already she knew what it was like to be going home . |