Example sentences of "have feel [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As all around me a nation explodes into an orgy of joyous celebration , I feel a little of what Mrs Thatcher must 've felt when the tabloids went into rapture about her ‘ ten glorious years ’ . |
| 2 | It was the best she 'd felt since Ascot . |
| 3 | After murmuring words of consolation , I asked her how she 'd felt when her husband gave up being a butcher and devoted his life to carving the gods . |
| 4 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 5 | And scared again , like I 'd felt when I 'd woken before . |
| 6 | After years of living out of suitcases in hotel rooms and tour coaches , finding the shabby old farmhouse deep in the country had seemed like heaven — the second she 'd spotted it , she 'd felt as though she had finally found home . |
| 7 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 8 | Now she knew how St. George must have felt when facing the dragon . |
| 9 | He decided to open his eyes , and immediately knew how God must have felt when he first observed his new creation . |
| 10 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 11 | I tell you ; I felt exactly like that other brilliant fellow must have felt when he discovered penicillin . |
| 12 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 13 | He knew what those two victims must have felt when tossed into the heat sink . |
| 14 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 15 | Zen pushed on , understanding how Italo Baldoni must have felt when the young Miletti slipped through his fingers . |
| 16 | Or , apropos of the necessity of having a good historical imagination when reading , ‘ I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them . ’ |
| 17 | How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’ |
| 18 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 19 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 20 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 21 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 22 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 23 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 24 | Theodora could n't help feeling , as she had felt before when dealing with Gilbert , that he was being disingenuous . |
| 25 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 26 | The build-up of frustration he had felt since he lost the part would not allow him to be silent . |
| 27 | Sophie frowned , trying to recall just how she had felt while she was gathering information from the lecturers at the veterinary congress . |
| 28 | The sweet scent of her native land came back to her , but she also began to remember the terror she had felt when she was wrenched from her home and transported to a place beside the sea . |
| 29 | Dermot sounded almost as angry as Kelly had felt when she 'd heard the news . |
| 30 | Even the unease he had felt when from time to time he had registered his brother 's anxiety , had somehow suggested an adventure . |