Example sentences of "she felt as [subord] [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool .
2 She felt as if someone had wrapped her thoughts in a blanket Reasoning seemed difficult ; actions were a major effort .
3 She felt as if someone had squeezed her heart hard and painfully .
4 Though , personally , she felt as if someone had injected her brain with a paralysing solution .
5 She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light .
6 She felt as if he had hit her .
7 When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong .
8 It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline .
9 He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years .
10 Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter .
11 She felt as if she had given her last performance .
12 The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream .
13 Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit .
14 She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string .
15 She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination .
16 She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke .
17 She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach .
18 All in all , she felt as if she had been ravaged !
19 So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost .
20 Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown .
21 She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time .
22 She felt as if she 'd already been questioned on the rack , and fitzAlan had n't even tried to force any definite answers out of her .
23 She felt as if she 'd been dipped in slime .
24 The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power .
25 She felt as if she 'd uncovered a dark pit of long-buried feelings , and she was terrified of peering too far inside in case she could n't cope with the contents …
26 Even her heart : she felt as if it had barely room to beat .
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