Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] like " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
5 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
9 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
10 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
13 | What it felt like to be left out . |
14 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
15 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
16 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
17 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
18 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |