Example sentences of "what it [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 2 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 3 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 4 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 5 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 8 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 9 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 10 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 11 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 12 | He remembers vividly ( not necessarily articulately ) what it feels like to be isolated , to be partnered , to be set adrift , to be reclaimed . |
| 13 | It needs to be , for an unfit smallholder has little hope of success , and too few people know what it feels like to be really fit . |
| 14 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 15 | It is important to understand what it feels like to be truly relaxed and to become aware of those times when we are not . |
| 16 | An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I know what it feels like to be a babe . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Describe what it feels like to be in prison . ’ |
| 21 | She , and many of the women like her whom I met , still does all the housework , just like before , and on top of that has to manage the effect of her husband 's traumatic discovery of something women have always known — what it feels like to be economically dependent . |
| 22 | Third , and finally , while it is true that the impact of all policies must be subjected to careful scrutiny , it is clearly particularly important to give attention to what it feels like to be on the receiving end of social policy . |
| 23 | We now have a colossal documentation of what it feels like to be in the margin . |
| 24 | Now he knows , truly knows , what it feels like to be number one . |
| 25 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 26 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |
| 27 | SALLY Gunnell reckons she now knows what it feels like to be a marked woman but Britain 's golden girl insists she will be able to cope with the new-found pressure when she launches her world championship campaign in earnest in Rome tonight . |