Example sentences of "[noun sg] feel [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been that , I suppose , which made the hairs on the back of my neck feel like they were giving off static . |
| 2 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 3 | He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him . |
| 4 | Now , in the sudden silence , Tug felt as though he had been stripped naked and pushed out into a football crowd . |
| 5 | My husband feels as though somebody is co chasing him |
| 6 | There was no effect on my mind at all , but my body felt as though it had been in the sun too long . |
| 7 | Her own body felt as though it was burning up with fever , and she put out an unsteady hand to touch his face . |
| 8 | I will not presume to deny your right to feel as you do . |
| 9 | Literature and autobiography are liberally sprinkled with accounts of the indignation and outrage felt when such a promise fails to materialize . |
| 10 | Lowering his head , he captured her mouth , expertly learned all there was to know about Ellie Browne 's responses — all about how putty felt when it was thoroughly warmed . |
| 11 | His left lung felt as though it was on fire . |
| 12 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 13 | My head feels as though it is on fire . |
| 14 | This explains the shock felt when from 1981 to 1984 losses increased to 17 per cent in Yorkshire and 14 per cent in the East Midlands , again reflecting a ‘ southward movement ’ of industrial problems . |
| 15 | Whole trees in motion ; inconvenience felt when walking against the wind . |
| 16 | The costumes are vivid and colourful with a distinct Russian feel while the sets are highly imaginative yet subtle . |
| 17 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 18 | ‘ Hush now , girl , we all get that three o'clock in the morning feeling when everything looks bad . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been thinking about what you said , that it 's very rare for a woman to feel as I do . |
| 20 | It may be considered that the theories so far discussed have failed to recognize the intensity and the intimacy felt when the right young reader and the right book come together . |
| 21 | Her hair felt as though it was standing on end . |
| 22 | He was so kind and good , and Honor felt as though she were being blessed whenever he spoke to her . |
| 23 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
| 24 | My foot feels like it 's trapped in a mangle , and she shouts in my face that I 'd better not address a lady in that tone . |
| 25 | Here and in the familiar later Ravel sonata the temperament feels as through applied from outside . |
| 26 | The needler felt like it was locked in space . |
| 27 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 28 | The cover shot nicely evokes the bewilderment felt when climbing in Ordesa . |
| 29 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 30 | I could n't imagine a little car with a luxury big-car feel until I drove the Metro . |