Example sentences of "to feel that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy . |
| 2 | Just as he started to feel that he could not endure it any longer , that he would have to struggle , Doyle 's fingers relaxed slightly . |
| 3 | At some stage a bereaved person usually begins to feel that he or she must be very selfish indeed . |
| 4 | Thus it is that the Masters and Augusta are always spoken of in reverential tones , each contestant being made to feel that he is walking on hallowed ground in close communion with the saints of the game . |
| 5 | Because of his disability , he had to feel that he could stand up against anyone , which indeed he could . |
| 6 | I think Ron needed to feel that he was in control of his fate . |
| 7 | Depending upon the attitude of his parents , he may begin to feel that he is either far more or far less important than the other children of the family and this too will affect his relationship with them . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , assuming that all users are eventually registered , the data subject should be able to feel that he knows or can find out more than he knew hitherto about the extent to which he figures in the data banks . |
| 9 | He needed to feel that he had n't been rejected . |
| 10 | Vologsky 's need to feel that he was not alone in the world had lain dormant for a long time . |
| 11 | He was relieved to feel that he would not be alone with Eleanor and was sure that he would be able , casually and quietly , to say something about Liza in the course of the evening — that is , if Eleanor did not say something first . |
| 12 | When he launched a well-timed attack on the greed of the boss class and their salary increases he was again made to feel that he had spoken out of turn . |
| 13 | Besides , Marco is in something of the position of Anthony Hope 's Rassendyll : he is a representative , the royal candidate , as well as a boy of twelve , and we need to feel that he stands a little apart from the stance of an ordinary boy-hero . |
| 14 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 15 | We understood his need to feel that he was special , that someone was looking after him , and wished he could draw strength from us , rather than locking himself in his fantasies . |
| 16 | He began to feel that he would not need either . |
| 17 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 18 | He had begun to feel that he was persecuted by devils , and eventually came to believe that the Egyptian god Osiris controlled his will . |
| 19 | He was beginning to feel that he had had enough of Yorick . |
| 20 | A man likes to feel that he has ‘ dependants ’ . |
| 21 | On the contrary , he was satisfied to feel that he was sharing in other people 's lives . |
| 22 | Libby began to feel that he had not been real , but the tent was there , a packet of cigarettes on the rolled mattress , and the smell of smoke filled the airless canvas space , scents of sweat and soap , adult tainting . |
| 23 | The only response is to clap them in irons , but that will not persuade anyone to listen to reason or to feel that he should be accountable . |
| 24 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 25 | Since he also believed , after the meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 , that Austria would take a lead from Russia on Ottoman affairs , he began to feel that he had a mandate for resolute action when the " eastern question " next arose . |