Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 2 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out , one at a time ? |
| 3 | Perhaps the easiest way to explain is to ask you to imagine what it feels like to be lying tucked up , snug and warm , in your own bed at night and being somewhere in that half-and-half land where you are neither completely asleep nor fully awake . |
| 4 | To keep morale up , the ANC plans to do what it does best : organise ‘ mass action ’ , including demonstrations next Friday , when Mr de Klerk announces his latest reforms . |
| 5 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 6 | It is important to understand what it feels like to be truly relaxed and to become aware of those times when we are not . |
| 7 | First and most importantly , you have to appreciate what it feels like to lose your job and , with it , the sureness that you can feed and clothe and take care of yourself and your dependants in the way you 're used to . |
| 8 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 9 | Another way to express this motivating power of individualism is to say that we have a tremendously strong interest in explaining at least some social phenomena in individualist terms , since this enables us to explain ourselves to ourselves ; to see what it feels like to be in someone else 's shoes . |
| 10 | Hence if a High Elf dragon has its rider killed add +1 to the D6 roll on the Monster Reaction Table to see what it does next . |
| 11 | With a flourish I fastened the middle button of my new suit ( off-white with charcoal seaming : I 'm not sure about it I wish you were here , I wish you were here to tell me it looked okay ) , eased my hands into my trouser pockets , and ambled loosely across the street . |