Example sentences of "could feel " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk . |
| 2 | But could feel it all . |
| 3 | He could not comprehend but he could feel it . |
| 4 | I could feel tears welling up in my eyes . |
| 5 | Tension choked them : they could feel it rising up their throats , threatening to swamp their brains . |
| 6 | My tone was defensive and I could feel the tenseness returning . |
| 7 | ‘ I lay on my nail scissors by mistake — they were under the rug — and just at the moment , well , to be graphic , an awful pain from outside was all I could feel . ’ |
| 8 | In my imagination I could feel the monotony of the days in my country , the poverty and the nothingness . |
| 9 | All I could feel were five soft muzzles have a friendly sniff . |
| 10 | He could feel an ‘ unbundling ’ assault on Grandmet would strike a receptive cord in the City . |
| 11 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 12 | Ramsey could feel that his resolve had a sufficient consent from his parents . |
| 13 | Once at least he could feel that a sermon of his moved his hearers . |
| 14 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 15 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 16 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 17 | In a still moment of total blackness she could feel the sinewed strength , the velvet softness of the dragon 's tripes . |
| 18 | Immediately and frighteningly she could feel Fenna 's will power . |
| 19 | She could feel her mother s irritation rise to balance the calmness that her grandmother threw over the fight . |
| 20 | Now she could feel the solid muscle of her daughter 's arms and she wanted to lean against her and draw comfort and strength ; but she pulled away and looked at Phoebe with that straight , clear , appraising look that was her hallmark . |
| 21 | She could feel Maggie 's distress ; Maggie needed more than to have her care about the house . |
| 22 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 23 | Phoebe could feel her own heard beating . |
| 24 | This last comment was the only one I could feel was definitely true . |
| 25 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 26 | I could feel the sad power of disintegration : husbands gone off , wives abandoned , children baffled . |
| 27 | She could feel herself relaxing . |
| 28 | Philip , pressed so close to the tree he could feel the knobbles in the bark , watched him . |
| 29 | Snow settled on the blanket and he could feel it on the back of his neck . |
| 30 | He could feel a slight erection coming on — the sort he had in bars when he met good-time girls . |