Example sentences of "[pron] felt that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I can hardly remember the first time I felt that we loved each other .
2 By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT .
3 I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan .
4 I felt that we needed more energy on record .
5 ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’
6 All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books .
7 As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering .
8 Well to tell you the truth I was n't very keen , I er , I felt that we made a mistake
9 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
10 He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’
11 The guards were apparently not given any regular weapons training and I felt that they really carried the weapons more as part of their uniform and tradition than because of absolute necessity .
12 And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support .
13 I supported it partly on the recommendation of the warden of the teachers ' centre and partly because I felt that they needed something positive because of the merger .
14 I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else .
15 I felt that she and the man …
16 I felt that she had read my mind , that she knew I had contemplated transgressing the roof taboo .
17 I felt that she was quite distressed by the birth — she seemed drowsy and a bit blue .
18 Like you now , I felt that I might never come back .
19 It was something I felt driven to do — even if most of the time I felt that I was just faking it .
20 I felt that I was being turned inside out .
21 He yawned as he did it , and banged about a bit , so I felt that I had to go .
22 I felt that I was looking right into the worms of pain in his skull , but they turned into slugs trying to eat their own tails .
23 I felt that I could n't endure any more .
24 I declined an invitation to have him fill a tooth , because I felt that I should never be able to afford the fee ; but I did accept an offer to be shown by Vivien round Oxford ( or ‘ Hoxford ’ as Mrs Webster called it , with that superfluous Beds. and Bucks .
25 It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud .
26 I felt that I began to get very complacent in my guitar playing and that 's why we asked Craig to leave .
27 I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie .
28 God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence .
29 As long as my father was alive I felt that I was not myself but his son , as I hope my son will feel for me — if I ever have a son , that is . ’
30 I felt that I had known it for a long time .
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