Example sentences of "felt [art] " in BNC.

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1 I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness .
2 ‘ And , ’ said Henry as lightly as he felt the conversation warranted .
3 I felt the courage draining out of me .
4 I myself felt the meeting had gone pretty well — the house itself was nice and we all seemed to get on very well together .
5 ‘ I just felt the velvet hammer !
6 Jay loved everything about glass and felt the weight and smoothness .
7 His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy .
8 Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste .
9 Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good .
10 Byers felt the pressure on him to offer something and was restive under it like a dog on a tether .
11 Cameron felt the dirtiness of conspiracy seeping into his being .
12 Cameron felt the frailty of the position as he spoke .
13 It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go .
14 It is difficult to comprehend to what extent Leonard felt the sense of this over-arching , life-elevating principle .
15 He felt the condom tear inside her .
16 It was the service between Paddington , Bristol and South Wales which felt the full impact of the recession .
17 Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers .
18 One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit .
19 Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering .
20 ‘ We wanted revenge and I think we all felt the pressure because we wanted to win so badly , ’ said Wood , who looked more like she was enjoying herself .
21 Spurs clearly felt the loss of their big centre-back Guy Butters , who had reported sick on the coach journey to Essex .
22 The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year .
23 But that ceasefire fell apart after Mr Savimbi learned that Mr Mobutu and seven other African leaders felt the Unita leader should go into ‘ temporary and voluntary ’ exile and integrate his Unita movement into Angola 's single party Marxist-Leninist system .
24 Johnston is confident of making an impact on the game and felt the size of the crowd would also be a vital factor with 10,000 Scots fans expected to attend .
25 The faculty also opposed the move to extend the rights of audience to suitably qualified solicitors , ‘ not to protect a monopoly ’ , but because it felt the administration of justice might suffer .
26 On balance , people felt the bias on both channels favoured the Conservative party and the Conservative party alone .
27 The number of voters who felt the Conservative Party was stressing defence as its main theme rose from 3 per cent in the first week to 39 per cent in the third and 46 per cent by the end of the campaign .
28 None the less , despite these general trends in perceptions there were always some voters who felt the Conservatives were not stressing defence , just as there were always others who felt the Conservatives were stressing defence .
29 None the less , despite these general trends in perceptions there were always some voters who felt the Conservatives were not stressing defence , just as there were always others who felt the Conservatives were stressing defence .
30 I felt the boots were rather narrow and inflexible .
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