Example sentences of "felt as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt as though he were going under dentist 's gas … |
| 2 | It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it . |
| 3 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 4 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 5 | He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world . |
| 6 | Dawson must know how Montezuma felt as his Aztec empire began to crumble around him . |
| 7 | Now , in the sudden silence , Tug felt as though he had been stripped naked and pushed out into a football crowd . |
| 8 | Now that she was back in one , it felt as though she 'd never been outside . |
| 9 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
| 10 | I felt as though I were about to undergo an important test . ’ |
| 11 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 12 | I felt as taken aback as he looked . |
| 13 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 14 | She felt as though the walls were squeezing in on her ; she looked around wildly for some way to escape . |
| 15 | The juniper in No 26 next door was looking as tired as she felt as she opened the gate . |
| 16 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 17 | He felt as though he was prying , and as though he was being uselessly urged on by some violent emotion of curiosity — not greed , curiosity , more fundamental even than sex , the desire for knowledge . |
| 18 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 19 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 20 | At the thought of those tears , my eyes felt as though they were being crushed and I wished that that moment would last forever . |
| 21 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 22 | By nightfall , Alec felt as though he were inside a fort under attack . |
| 23 | Gone was the pride he felt as through the night |
| 24 | I felt as though I should have done something . ’ |
| 25 | She felt as though she was walking on air . |
| 26 | Before they became accustomed to the heavy weight of the head-dresses , they felt as though their heads would drop off . |
| 27 | In the cellars , absinthe was all the rage , one sip and you felt as though your head would come off . |
| 28 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |
| 29 | At this discovery he felt as though he was really achieving something . |
| 30 | The depression took two days to clear , but afterwards Rosemary felt as well as before , both mentally and physically . |