Example sentences of "[verb] felt [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
| 2 | ‘ Howard , ’ says Phil , ‘ how long do you think you could have sat here being at one with the infinite before you 'd felt your bottom aching and your scalp itching ? ’ |
| 3 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 4 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 5 | If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure . |
| 6 | He would have felt it demeaning to condemn this world utterly without first paying a visit to the vicinity of its ruler . |
| 7 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 8 | He must have felt his new-found vitality was precarious . |
| 9 | And since that movement , that rejection , Alix had felt her own desire diminish . |
| 10 | She 'd half expected he would want to make love with her again , had felt her own body liquefy with musky desire for him . |
| 11 | On both occasions he had glanced up , as if he had felt her startled gaze resting on him . |
| 12 | Before the Suez débâcle in the autumn of 1956 , British governments had felt themselves able to dictate the pace at which the colonial Empire would be transformed into a cohesive Commonwealth of Nations : after Suez the imperial ethos was shattered , and our run down to middle-power status was no longer resisted . |
| 13 | Promenading the catwalk , Caroline had felt their blazing heat . |
| 14 | More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this . |
| 15 | Shannon managed to smile , wondering why Josh had felt it necessary to explain . |
| 16 | And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her . |
| 17 | He wondered why he had felt it important to speak Harry 's name . |
| 18 | However the conference had felt it advisable to avoid this and the Labour Party and the TUC were asked instead to formulate a policy which would rally the whole working-class movement against Fascism and Capitalism . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I will , because , as you 've felt it necessary to keep reminding me , tomorrow is your first day in a new job , and because I can wait , now that I 'm sure of you . |
| 20 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 21 | We must acknowledge that people affected by the virus have felt it necessary to leave their communities here in Gwynedd to seek diagnosis , support and care elsewhere . ’ |
| 22 | With regret however , I must record that , only as a result of the pending changes , Peter Jacob and Clive Labovitch have felt it appropriate to resign from the Board of RIBA Companies Ltd . |