Example sentences of "felt [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost felt sympathy for Marc if he imagined he could change what was deeply ingrained in Peter 's nature . |
| 2 | My Lords erm I was deeply appreciative of er the my Noble Friend , Lord Boyd-Carpenter insofar as he said that he felt sympathy for me . |
| 3 | She began to cry in earnest and Tony , for the first time in his life , felt emotion for a working girl . |
| 4 | The young man paused to gather his breath and Corbett , still only half awake , felt pity for this young man whose life and energy were now narrowed to justify his conduct on one night out of thousands . |
| 5 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
| 6 | This made her think suddenly of the pain which Neil Cochrane must have endured , so that she felt pity for him , after all . |
| 7 | Sara suddenly felt pity for her stepfather , bereft of his only , well-beloved daughter . |
| 8 | It is difficult to get a good clear contrast with chalk and an overhead projector , or white board with thick black felt pens for writing , can give better contrast . |
| 9 | It is this , sometimes tenuous connection , coupled with the vaguely but certainly felt need for a ‘ god ’ that makes people reluctant to break away entirely , and claim to be completely atheist . |
| 10 | I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do . |
| 11 | It was not simply the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments for and against abolition which exercised and divided its members , but the proper role of the Government on what was seen as a question of conscience . |
| 12 | For the first time since he had met him , Blake felt compassion for the old Time Lord . |
| 13 | She struggled to see both sides of the story , but it was hard , very hard , because although she felt compassion for Jamie she also felt anger : he had almost killed her father . |
| 14 | As he told the press of his son 's death , Mr Parry spoke with remarkable composure but he fought to hold back tears when asked if he felt anger for the IRA . |
| 15 | He felt contempt for the soft lives of the TOP 's . |
| 16 | So Paul had a big blue felt marker for days and a red one for nights . |
| 17 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 18 | Her speech was clipped and deprecatory , yet she was sought after by a host of admirers who held her in awe and sometimes felt affection for her . |
| 19 | He was fond of old Bill — one felt affection for anything that was sufficiently old — but really he was too much of a prophet of woe . |
| 20 | Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike . |