Example sentences of "[pron] felt [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I was being pushed around and lost some enthusiasm . ’ |
| 2 | and I felt I was being spread in so many directions erm , that erm I wanted to get rid of the Glasgow coordination |
| 3 | Sometimes I felt I was being followed or watched whilst seated in a tavern or moving amongst the stalls in Cheapside . |
| 4 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 5 | He was thinking instead of the twenty minutes he had spent at home between a difficult hour persuading the voluntary organist at New End ( a retired primary-school headmistress who felt she was being taken for granted ) to continue , at least temporarily , and this service of compline at Quindale . |
| 6 | It seems she felt they were being used as unpaid labour . |
| 7 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 8 | And although she felt she was being torn apart inside , at the same time the older woman 's brutal candour was welcome , because it finally answered so many unhappy questions . |
| 9 | His eyes had a smouldering look in them , and she felt she was being hypnotised . |
| 10 | People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of . |
| 11 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 12 | And they felt they were being exploited . |
| 13 | He felt he was being particularly generous offering marriage to someone he had not yet met . |
| 14 | He said he had to resign because he felt he was being made the ‘ fall guy ’ for breaches of the law he had no control over . |
| 15 | He felt he was being drawn out of his comfortless hole into something altogether more vast and impressive and alarming . |
| 16 | And when her soft red lips closed over the tip of his rapacious tool , he felt he was being lifted into paradise . |
| 17 | It was as if his vision had steadily darkened , until he could see nothing else ; no brightness , no sunlight , just a public hell into which he felt he was being dragged while others walked by it unseeing . |
| 18 | Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people . |