Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] felt that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pretended a greater surprise than she felt that the leader of those upon the bridle path was Lord Wyatt . |
| 2 | Just as she felt ashamed and somehow responsible for the disgrace of her mother 's lover so she felt that the man 's attack had been her fault . |
| 3 | A good all rounder , although we felt that the bottle looked a little cheap . |
| 4 | She had never helped with any of the bills , so he felt that the house was his alone . |
| 5 | She worked very hard to get everything exactly right and would spend hours in her room sewing , unpicking and re-sewing until she felt that the clothes were perfect . |
| 6 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 7 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 8 | The local authority says that the justices had no power to add a direction of any sort to the care order and , in particular , they had no power to order that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continued involvement with L. , so that , effectively , he could apply if he felt that the rehabilitation process was not succeeding . |
| 9 | A second suggestion made by the guardian ad litem is that he should be re-appointed on the question of contact between the child and the mother , and that the court should adjourn that question so that there would be a continuing issue relating to contact and the guardian ad litem could make an application for contact to be brought to an end if he felt that the rehabilitation process was failing . |
| 10 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 11 | In my small way , because I felt that the whole business had been handled most unsatisfactorily by Baldwin and exploited by others , including the Archbishop of Canterbury , I plunged into the resulting controversy . |
| 12 | The zoologist was upset because she felt that the small animal had suffered from the journey in the box and she was responsible for its death . |
| 13 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 14 | The architects duly made economies , although they were dismayed that these had to include the reduction to a dwarf wall of the high wall intended for the street side of the car park because they felt that the omission of a high wall at this point would detract from the character of Rotherhithe Street . |
| 15 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 16 | During the Yorkist period there were undoubtedly some movements of popular discontent ; in 1471 the Essex men seem to have joined Fauconberg 's attack on London because they felt that the citizens were paying insufficient prices for dairy supplies . |
| 17 | He spoke not because he felt that the denomination was threatened or was losing ground but because the status quo did not give Congregationalism the dignity its growing wealth and membership had earned for it . |
| 18 | He had wanted this change , not least because he felt that the rural Church was being neglected , that progressive Church thinking was forgetting to take into account that huge section of the population whose rhythms were dictated by quite other influences than urban ones . |
| 19 | Although Hawke retained much of his former Cabinet following the general election , one notable absence was that of former Finance Minister Peter Walsh who retired from government because he felt that the Hawke administration lacked sufficient political will to tackle the country 's pressing financial problems [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 20 | Crawford said at the time that he identified with his character because he felt that the enthusiasm and initiative of youth was often undervalued by the older generation . |
| 21 | Civic Forum and PAV leaders expressed a wish to include Jan Carnogursky , Deputy Premier in the outgoing government and a leading figure in the CDM , but the CDM initially refused to join the government because it felt that the poor showing of the CDU/CDM in the elections would prevent the implementation of anything in its programme . |
| 22 | Ponting 's defence was that he was acting in the public interest since he felt that the government was trying to mislead Parliament . |
| 23 | After Paul left , the party broke up quickly , as though everyone felt that the business of the day had now been concluded . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Naturally I am very disappointed , especially as I felt that the evidence and explanations produced would be accepted . |
| 25 | When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand . |
| 26 | On the one hand , they stated that , because they felt relatively isolated from the ‘ rest of the world ’ , counselling sessions provided a means of release , particularly as they felt that the counsellors were more in contact with their own reality than individuals from ‘ official ’ agencies : |
| 27 | The controversy culminated in 1877 with Wallich 's unsuccessful demand that the Royal Society should censure his two opponents , for he felt that the Society had tacitly condoned their misdemeanours by publishing their results in its prestigious journal , from which Wallich was debarred since he was not a fellow . |
| 28 | I often suspected a touch of sheer paranoia in Colin on race weekends : as though he felt that the gods out there were all conspiring to deprive him of his advancement and rights . |