Example sentences of "we feel [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We push the plunger home , we abrade the clitoris , we yank the penis and we feel nothing . |
| 2 | ‘ If we feel something is threatening we do n't laugh . |
| 3 | We will not be frightened to express our views if we feel something has to be said . |
| 4 | David Hume begins the section of A Treatise of Human Nature on personal identity with the sentence : ‘ There are some philosophers , who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF ; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence ; and are certain , beyond the evidence of a demonstration , both of its perfect identity and simplicity ’ . |
| 5 | Sensations of white , for instance , are classed together , not because we can take them to pieces , and say they are alike in this , and not alike in that , but because we feel them to be alike altogether , though in different degrees . |
| 6 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We treated hardship cases sympathetically , and we feel they have almost all been honourably resolved on both sides . |
| 8 | Although they eyes were specifically designed for the Pyranha Mountain Bat , we feel they would work equally well on other boats . |
| 9 | Legends about the movement of stones arise because , if the stones are alive with energy , this in some way affects our perception so that we feel they are moving . |
| 10 | ‘ We feel they are the targets for extreme abuse . |
| 11 | And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths . |
| 12 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 13 | We feel we can not comment on their allegations until we have seen it too , ’ Roy Batchelor , Rugby 's spokesman said . |
| 14 | Sometimes we feel we have been deeply asleep and at others we recall that we have been dreaming . |
| 15 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 16 | ‘ We feel we have all the security measures and precautions in place , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Women are still judged so much by their appearances , so we feel we have to get that perfect first , before achieving anything . ’ |
| 18 | But he can attend to individual skills and in that respect , knowing Dusty and his firm opinions as we do , we feel we have recruited a winner . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We feel we must be part of a much larger group , ’ said Mr Duckworth . |
| 20 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 21 | We feel we are very fortunate to have known Shanti 's mother , for we were able to tell her what her mother looked like , and speak of her lovingly as a person , not as the ‘ brown paper parcel ’ referred to before . |
| 22 | Deep inside ourselves we feel we will never be fulfilled . |
| 23 | We feel we are better than others and that they should come up to our standards . |
| 24 | At the root of desire is the longing to take that which we feel we lack . |
| 25 | Jealousy is also linked with the question why ? and what we feel we are owed . |
| 26 | Having read your disgracefully biased article ‘ Cheating charge rocks malaria ’ ( This Week , 17 February , p 423 ) we feel we must protest . |
| 27 | Regardless of our commitment to joint decision-making most of us will find that there are many decisions where we feel we lack either sufficient interest or qualification and are perfectly happy to leave those decisions to our partner , eg many men would feel primarily responsible for choosing a car but would prefer their wives to pick out the furniture , decorations and plan the kitchen . |
| 28 | Advertising is certainly a legitimate business , but there is a sense in which its goal is to raise the lust factor to a level where we feel we need something today that we did not know existed yesterday . |
| 29 | There was and is no legal definition of privacy ; indeed there is no general agreement about what it is — like happiness we can not define it but recognise it when we have it , or more often we know when we feel we do not have it . |
| 30 | We feel we must continue to pursue that objective as new JARs are formulated . ’ |