Example sentences of "i felt " in BNC.

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1 The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion , and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith , the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders .
2 Inside , however , I felt inherently inferior , inadequate to fill the role .
3 I felt like Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner , who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast , inflicting on them the story of his misfortune . ’
4 In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned .
5 It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable .
6 I gave up because I felt insulted .
7 Anyway the moment I trod the stage I felt completely at home .
8 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
9 It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that .
10 I felt it annihilating me .
11 I felt its coldness spreading through my body , killing off the cells , one by one .
12 I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness .
13 I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it .
14 I remember how leaden-footed I felt , climbing the two flights of stairs to Charles 's office .
15 I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays .
16 I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up .
17 I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was .
18 I felt sick .
19 I felt the courage draining out of me .
20 They told me to keep in touch and call them if I felt they could be of assistance .
21 Suddenly I felt extraordinarily relieved .
22 It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now .
23 I felt hungry , cold and dirty .
24 I felt like Gulliver in Lilliput — or maybe Mother Courage in Toytown .
25 I felt powerless .
26 This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone .
27 I looked absolutely awful — and I felt pretty dreadful too .
28 I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside .
29 I felt oddly nervous when returning the call .
30 I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’
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