Example sentences of "felt as if he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime . |
| 2 | After this strange sensation he felt as if he were a snowman ‘ at last beginning to melt ’ . |
| 3 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 4 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 5 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 6 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 7 | He felt as if he were pressing against a strong , polarised magnetic force . |
| 8 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 9 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 10 | Nails felt as if he was bursting . |
| 11 | Wishart felt as if he was standing at a crossroads with two paths leading into the darkness . |
| 12 | In the course of filling his lungs he felt as if he were rising a few inches off the ground . |
| 13 | The only transport available was a dog cart , which he hired of necessity , but the slowness made his temper worse , and by the time he reached the rectory he felt as if he would burst with fury . |
| 14 | ‘ Nathan ? ’ she called , and he called back , ‘ Yes ? ’ but there was no second call , and he turned round , and there was nobody there , not a sound , and he felt strange then , he felt as if he 'd been visited . |
| 15 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean — ’ Paul felt as if he had received a blow in the stomach . |
| 17 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 18 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 19 | Flaubert knew a choking sensation and felt as if he had swallowed flesh . |
| 20 | Rossmayne felt as if he were torturing Topaz , but he had to stand firm . |
| 21 | I felt as if he felt I was a stranger . |
| 22 | And I was brought up virtually without a , well he felt as if he was n't a father , he felt as though he was my younger brother all the time ! |
| 23 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 24 | He felt as if he were being fished . |
| 25 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |
| 26 | Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid . |
| 27 | He felt as if he was burning and it hurt to breathe . |
| 28 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 30 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |