Example sentences of "felt [noun sg] 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 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 .
9 I think that evening I felt instinct for the first time — what not to do and what to do .
10 For the first time since he had met him , Blake felt compassion for the old Time Lord .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He felt contempt for the soft lives of the TOP 's .
14 So Paul had a big blue felt marker for days and a red one for nights .
15 He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike .
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