Example sentences of "felt he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 2 | He found that he could n't go out with the lads anymore , and he felt he 'd lost his happy-go-lucky side . |
| 3 | Des Little the signing from Swansea has been rested because er Frank Clarke felt he 'd lost a little bit of confidence in Forest 's poor start to the season . |
| 4 | Pete Woodward got one of the dead centres and he felt he 'd erased the previous day 's disaster . |
| 5 | ‘ You lost more in the war than we did , ’ Maxim said , and instantly felt he 'd pitched it too strong . |
| 6 | Tallboy felt he 'd had enough of that one . |
| 7 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |
| 8 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 9 | Charles constantly felt he had done nothing to earn it ; there was no feeling of satisfaction in a job well done . |
| 10 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 11 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 12 | He felt he had done it absolutely as best he could and there was no way he could repeat the emotion . |
| 13 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 14 | It had not been easy without existing contacts in the region , and their reports would have to be treated with caution for a while , but on the whole he felt he had achieved as much as could have been expected . |
| 15 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 16 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 17 | ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability . |
| 18 | She reminded him of someone , or rather he felt he had met her before . |
| 19 | Peter felt he had missed an opportunity . |
| 20 | Dyson felt he had grasped enough of the general principles of the conversation between Boddy and Westerman to risk joining in himself . |
| 21 | He felt he had made a fool of himself . |
| 22 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 23 | I 'm pretty sure , in the way these things work , that Alfred felt he had made the wrong choice and , illogically , held it against Matthew . |
| 24 | A firm believer in mysticism and fate , he felt he had ignored the course his intuition was guiding him to follow . |
| 25 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 26 | Spring and Wimbledon were still here , even if at times he felt he had landed in a foreign country . |
| 27 | In his 1965 article , ‘ Aesthetic of Hunger ’ , enormously influential on Third World cinema and art , Glauber felt he had given ‘ the measure of my rational understanding of poverty ’ . |
| 28 | Louis Gerstner received a lesson on Friday on just how tough it will be to lead IBM Corp in the midst of its economic woes , as he was showered with difficult questions about his qualifications to lead a computer company , Dow Jones & Co reports : Gerstner was also asked to explain why he left RJR to lead IBM — ‘ I thought this was an extraordinary opportunity , ’ he said , and asked if he felt he had completed his job at RJR , Gerstner responded ‘ I do n't think the job is ever finished as chief of a large company . ’ |
| 29 | Yet ten minutes later he felt he had treated her unkindly and regretted not having gone after her . |
| 30 | As the round ticked to an end , he felt he had acquitted himself rather well . |