Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] felt [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have felt sorry for them , but I did n't because I was really only sorry for myself and their problems were n't mine . |
| 2 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 3 | He should have felt happy . |
| 4 | Mama must have felt poorly , dragged herself upstairs and … |
| 5 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 6 | After last Sunday 's fifth Benson and Hedges Masters triumph , Hendry must have felt confident of continuing his winning ways in this week 's Humo European Open . |
| 7 | Because Jean-Claude must have felt all this , too , there was no point in my saying anything . |
| 8 | Instead , they might acknowledge them by saying , ‘ You must have felt awful … would you like to tell me what happened ? ’ |
| 9 | True to form , Orwell in his notes on Waugh disapprovingly named snobbery and Catholicism as the two driving forces of the novel , and as a secular radical he must have felt obliged to reprobate the one as much as the other . |
| 10 | He must have felt sorry he had saved the life of his enemy 's son . |
| 11 | My mother went down the yard and seen the boss and asked him if he could get and the fact that my mother went down the yard I suppose er he must have felt sorry for us . |
| 12 | Even Dawn must have felt good about it . |
| 13 | She must have felt guilty about not inviting me as she gave me £1 to get myself home . |
| 14 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 15 | ‘ You must have felt alone . |
| 16 | It must have felt solitary sometimes at night alone in that old house now in decline , undermanned , vulnerable . |
| 17 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 18 | ‘ When I saw that he had drunk it all , I knew he must have felt bad . |
| 19 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 20 | None the less , once war had been renewed in 1449 and Normandy had been recovered , it was time to turn again towards Aquitaine where the English must have felt isolated and apprehensive . |
| 21 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 22 | Stevenson might have felt one of his own remarks appropriate : ‘ The cruellest lies are often told in silence . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Was there anyone who might have felt jealous or resentful of this appointment ? ’ |
| 24 | ( Thucydides never saw Pericles at his demagogic debut , or he might have felt less dismay at the look of the great man 's successors : ii.65 . ) |
| 25 | He could have felt superior and thought them all fools for pitying him for getting what he wanted . |
| 26 | After the hard fighting of the initial campaign Rome could have felt satisfied with the rapid conquest and prepared to stabilize and consolidate her new addition to the Empire . |
| 27 | But it is difficult to imagine how Dustin could have felt any involvement in the picture . |
| 28 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 29 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 30 | Hilda might have enjoyed it while it lasted , but at the end she 'd have felt upset . ’ |