Example sentences of "felt [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet 's throat felt dry as she poured the tea in silence . |
| 2 | She drew in a breath , determined not to be cowed by this hulking brute , but her mouth felt dry as he loomed closer . |
| 3 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 4 | Charles felt depressed as he walked through Soho to Archer Street that evening . |
| 5 | I had almost forgotten about him and immediately felt depressed as I trudged off to find my car . |
| 6 | I actually felt guilty as I climbed into my Porsche , and then kicked myself hard , metaphorically , and told myself not to let a nasty-minded Police Inspector upset me . |
| 7 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 8 | She felt guilty as she held her daughter until the shivering and the teeth chattering stopped . |
| 9 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 10 | She stared at him , then suddenly felt foolish as she realised how uptight she 'd allowed herself to become . |
| 11 | He felt foolish as he looked at Molly who was on all fours amongst the pine needles looking at him in open mouthed amazement . |
| 12 | Leonora felt claustrophobic as he loomed over her . |
| 13 | The penguin felt embarrassed as she gazed into the black , unblinking seal eyes . |
| 14 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 15 | Lindsey 's breathing felt constricted as they moved into the crowd . |
| 16 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 17 | He felt sick as he thought about them . |
| 18 | Gabriel felt sick as he realized the horrible truth . |
| 19 | She felt sick as she made a brief speech which was delivered in a rapid monotone . |
| 20 | Rain felt sick as she listened to him . |
| 21 | Kate felt sick as she looked at it . |
| 22 | Meyer felt confused as he sat behind his desk and started examining a file . |
| 23 | Outside in the April sunshine the temperature was over seventy degrees , but Polly felt chilled as she looked with rising desperation towards the window . |
| 24 | And the clothes felt good as she trailed her had along them — thin cottons — muslin 's — fine wool 's — nothing synthetic . |
| 25 | He felt good as he negotiated the narrow lanes between Purton and Sharpness . |
| 26 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 27 | I felt curious as I said the words in an office to a man the other side of a desk with white flowers and greenery in a vase . |
| 28 | I FELT confident as I went through . |
| 29 | She felt powerless as he brought up his other hand and let his fingers feather lightly down the side of her neck to her collar-bone . |
| 30 | Elizabeth felt troubled as she went back down the stairs . |