Example sentences of "feel [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed as if you 'd swept those moments from your mind — at least , you made me feel you were doing your best to forget them . ’ |
| 2 | Despite all the sparks they had struck off one another she had felt they were forging a deep friendship based on mutual respect and acknowledgement of each other 's special qualities . |
| 3 | He became the characters in Homer or the tragedies , and made his audience feel they were seeing the drama as well as listening to an interpretation . |
| 4 | By comparison with other European empires overseas , the English could feel they were doing well enough . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that so many North Americans feel they were born to shop . |
| 6 | As a result , the city councillors feel they were misled ; but , says Fohrbeck , ‘ One 's faith is one 's own affair ’ , and she quotes the preamble to the German Constitution . |
| 7 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt you were lost to me and I could n't understand why . ’ |
| 9 | With your eyes shut you felt you were flying . |
| 10 | You felt you were drifting out of your seat . |
| 11 | You felt you were locked into a particular stratum of society , that that was your place and that was where you stayed . |
| 12 | In The Towering Inferno you always felt you were standing outside the fire , in Backdraft you 're right in the middle of it . ’ |
| 13 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 14 | When you flew into a cloud you felt you were going down . |
| 15 | In the Central Market in San Salvador , the manager , General Noel Aparicio , created a special uniformed and armed vigilante force to intimidate the market women , " It got to the point where we felt we were entering a prison , not a market . |
| 16 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 17 | Perhaps they were simple questions but , at the age of 13 , we felt we were beginning to think things out for ourselves . |
| 18 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt we were treated like children rather than experienced professionals and I know many of the other lads agreed with me . |
| 20 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 21 | ‘ The end of the sixties came as a kind of incredible collapse ’ , wrote Haynes , ‘ a collapse of hope , and of the innocence and the naïveté of the decade when everyone felt we were changing the world . ’ |
| 22 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 23 | A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , we felt we were missing something , that we were excluded from a wider world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again . |
| 26 | But I never felt we were going to lose , even in Paris ’ — WADE DOOLEY ( England lock ) on the Grand Slam success . |
| 27 | I felt we were communing with something deeper than words . |
| 28 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 29 | It was also that free admission was part of the great Victorian philanthropic tradition , part of the vision of Britain which the Establishment felt they were called to safeguard . |
| 30 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |