Example sentences of "[pers pn] felt he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 2 | At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry . |
| 3 | He found that he could n't go out with the lads anymore , and he felt he 'd lost his happy-go-lucky side . |
| 4 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 5 | Pete Woodward got one of the dead centres and he felt he 'd erased the previous day 's disaster . |
| 6 | He felt he had made a fool of himself . |
| 7 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 8 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 9 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 10 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 11 | It had not been easy without existing contacts in the region , and their reports would have to be treated with caution for a while , but on the whole he felt he had achieved as much as could have been expected . |
| 12 | She reminded him of someone , or rather he felt he had met her before . |
| 13 | Spring and Wimbledon were still here , even if at times he felt he had landed in a foreign country . |
| 14 | Yet ten minutes later he felt he had treated her unkindly and regretted not having gone after her . |
| 15 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |
| 16 | A firm believer in mysticism and fate , he felt he had ignored the course his intuition was guiding him to follow . |
| 17 | As the round ticked to an end , he felt he had acquitted himself rather well . |
| 18 | Louis Gerstner received a lesson on Friday on just how tough it will be to lead IBM Corp in the midst of its economic woes , as he was showered with difficult questions about his qualifications to lead a computer company , Dow Jones & Co reports : Gerstner was also asked to explain why he left RJR to lead IBM — ‘ I thought this was an extraordinary opportunity , ’ he said , and asked if he felt he had completed his job at RJR , Gerstner responded ‘ I do n't think the job is ever finished as chief of a large company . ’ |
| 19 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 20 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 21 | He felt he had done it absolutely as best he could and there was no way he could repeat the emotion . |
| 22 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 23 | After her husband 's death Valerie Eliot declared , " He felt he had paid too high a price to be a poet , that he had suffered too much " . |
| 24 | He gave every impression of being a man besotted with her — he felt he had failed to grasp the one chance of happiness facing him . ’ |
| 25 | He agreed this name might be in error , but by convoluted etymological detective work he felt he had established a link between the Saxon word for a cleared strip of land and his lines . |
| 26 | He felt he had wasted enough time on the editor , and replied with asperity : ‘ How should I know ? |
| 27 | Even before he had left America , he felt he had exhausted the possibilities of the European 12-tone composers and the American tonalists who had provided his early models . |
| 28 | He found himself smiling widely as he went to obey her and for a moment he felt he had dropped into a home which was familiar to him . |
| 29 | Ken encouraged him to do Shaw and ran over the lines with him until he felt he had got it . |
| 30 | Vuk had not completed his education when he crossed the river in 1807 to join Karadjordje , although he felt he had learned all he could from his teachers in Karlovci . |