Example sentences of "that [pron] felt [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 2 | He looked so cold and hungry that I felt sorry for him . |
| 3 | All I knew was that I felt married to him . |
| 4 | All I knew was that I felt biased towards having it . |
| 5 | Early in life she had managed to change roles with me , so that I felt responsible for her , rather than she for me . |
| 6 | I was very impressed by the care and attention I received in labour and the concerned approach of the consultant and all the junior staff to things that I felt wrong with my first delivery . |
| 7 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 8 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 9 | He paused and she pushed his hands away from her with a violence that she felt right through her . |
| 10 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 11 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 12 | For it turned out that she felt protective towards the actor George Felix and preferred to keep their encounter private . |
| 13 | ‘ I make you dislike me ? ’ he questioned , and seemed to be so genuinely distressed at that thought that she felt duty-bound to quickly reassure him . |
| 14 | Once Ann had been helped to understand that she felt insecure in her relationship with Charles as a result of earlier experiences , she and Charles were then able to commit themselves to a contractual approach to problem-solving . |
| 15 | The distaste she experienced was so intense that she felt dizzy for several seconds . |
| 16 | She put a big pan of water to boil , ready for the pasta , then added canned mushrooms to the tomato sauce , which was giving off such a heavenly aroma that she felt hungry despite her inner turmoil . |
| 17 | He looked so handsome that she felt sick with nerves , weak with attraction . |
| 18 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Most said that they felt guilty about taking time off , even when they were ill . ’ |
| 20 | So , a possible explanation of the unions ' behaviour is that they judged a Labour victory uncertain , if not unlikely ; that they preferred to make hay while the setting Labour sun still shone ; and that they felt secure against whatever weather a Conservative dawn might bring . |
| 21 | She could almost feel sorry for him , the way that everybody felt sorry for the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons ; so singleminded , and with a lack of perspective that was spectacular . |
| 22 | And she had to confess , much as she hated to , that it felt nice to be on amicable terms with Jake . |
| 23 | He 'd bought a BMW because he 'd heard that it was the car to have , and would n't admit that he felt uncomfortable in it . |
| 24 | This , with the similarities in handwriting , led the BR manager to conclude that he felt convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that Mr. Brand had committed the offence . |
| 25 | Poor Leopold at home was clearly pining for his son : in a touching letter he confessed that he felt sad at times , being unable to hear Wolfgang playing the piano and violin , and each time he approached his home he half expected to hear the familiar sound of his son 's fiddle . |
| 26 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 27 | To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway . |
| 28 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
| 29 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 30 | That was what caused the hysteria and enthusiasm and so , I felt that if the band on stage was at least so close to his sense of humour that he felt comfortable with them , if the crew and all the support system was so strong that he could relax enough to enjoy the crowd , only then would it get magnetic and spontaneous . |