Example sentences of "was feeling " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman was handier with a knife , another was better organised , two had marvellous raw materials , another was feeling the pressure of competing . |
| 2 | Either Lucy was feeling chastened or doing a damn good act that way . |
| 3 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 4 | But remember ’ — he had lifted an arm now and was prodding with his forefinger as though pointing to the furthest corners of the country ( he was feeling the attention of the crowd and letting it recharge his energy ) , ‘ the people are mightier than a lord . ’ |
| 5 | I urged her to listen to me and to feel what I was feeling . |
| 6 | The altitude had suddenly hit her and she was feeling rough . |
| 7 | But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse . |
| 8 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |
| 9 | He offered to stop someone , but I was feeling a bit better . |
| 10 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 11 | By the next morning I was feeling sick with worry , and so we decided to drive to Scotland to collect Eva ourselves . ’ |
| 12 | If she had asked for Ward Five he would have told her morning visiting in the public wards was forbidden and he might , because he was feeling benevolent , have called her love . |
| 13 | By then his eyes and hands were swelling , he was feeling nauseous and could not lie down at night because of the pain in his back . |
| 14 | By then his eyes and hands were swelling , he was feeling nauseous and could not lie down at night because of the pain in his back . |
| 15 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 16 | At tea-ti me the next day he picked up Catherine at her flat , noticing that she was looking rested and pretty even if he was feeling jaded and disaffected . |
| 17 | John McLeish was feeling justifiably pleased with himself as he walked into his office at eight o'clock on Monday morning . |
| 18 | I walked down — it 's not far , and I was feeling rather full of quiche . ’ |
| 19 | Claudia Yeo was feeling sick , but knew she was on secure ground . |
| 20 | WHEN Machiavelli sat down to write ‘ The Prince ’ , he was feeling anxious . |
| 21 | A quarter of a century later , when Mr Gorbachev was feeling reform-minded , it was a head of department at TSEMI , Stanislav Shatalin , who drafted the ‘ 500-day plan ’ , a proposal for sweeping free-market reforms . |
| 22 | By the end , although there were n't many in the audience , Nigel was feeling remarkably cocky . |
| 23 | Tug found that his fury had gone and he was feeling sorry for her . |
| 24 | The Sufi sage , Hadrat Uwais el-Qarni , a contemporary of Mohammed , was once asked how he was feeling . |
| 25 | She was feeling a great deal better about everything , but knew better than to say so . |
| 26 | Charles tried not to look like the outcast he was feeling and quickened his pace to simulate important last minute business at the Officers ' Mess . |
| 27 | I was feeling a bit dizzy now . |
| 28 | Then , when I was feeling fit to drop , Tumbleweed said he 'd show me Flakebridge Wood , which lay beneath a range of foothills under the Pennine Edge . |
| 29 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 30 | Tammuz , sitting opposite the gleaming androgyne of surgery and neural nudging , considered that he himself was feeling far from good that day . |