Example sentences of "[coord] i felt i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 2 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 3 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 4 | it , I did n't and I felt I 'd have no friends around where I lived and you know , I 'd always be alienated , I 'd always be home later and I said to my mum I do n't think I can cope with it , so she said right then you do n't go ! |
| 5 | I remembered so painfully the anguish of estrangement , and I felt I could not take the risk of spoiling our amity , nor of living with memories of discord , should he be killed . |
| 6 | He 'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him . |
| 7 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 8 | I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers . |
| 9 | And I felt I could n't design rational experiments without having some type of criteria to judge the results against ; otherwise I would n't be able to see where I was going . |
| 10 | But she was obviously very upset and I felt I could n't leave her . |
| 11 | When I was asked by John Wakeham to join AEA as a part-time member in 1988 , it was clear that it would to help lead a similar re-orientation and I felt I could make a useful contribution . |
| 12 | Dermatitis and I felt I could n't go near cement and all of that . |
| 13 | ‘ We returned from our holiday in Hungary and I felt I must write to you . |
| 14 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 15 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 16 | I appreciated I was taking on quite a responsibility — I knew it would n't be like having a budgie in a cage as a pet — but I felt I could cope . |
| 17 | But I felt I could n't give up , for my own sake or the baby 's . |
| 18 | She said " I have nobody , you are my mother , please take me , " But I felt I could not handle another nervous wreck . |
| 19 | I had , until I took the role of the Guild secretary , I , I as I say , I think I would have gone on to being politically , erm but I felt I could n't do both . |
| 20 | But I felt I could ‘ phone or meet ‘ the body ’ ! |
| 21 | But I felt I 'd let him down . |
| 22 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 23 | I stayed about half-an-hour but I felt I should n't be there . |
| 24 | I was glad he had spoken as if he wanted to , but I felt I should apologize , once they had gone . |
| 25 | But I felt I should of worn it out of the material . |