Example sentences of "she felt [prep] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 2 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 3 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
| 4 | She felt as if he was closing a door behind them and right at this moment she would have liked to keep it open , if only just a crack , because Felipe de Santis walked round the plane and stood watching them as they came towards him . |
| 5 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
| 6 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 7 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 8 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 9 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 10 | She felt as if she were floating on air . |
| 11 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 12 | Seated in the tube train , she felt as if she were thundering through the earth in a time-capsule , guided by a power greater than herself , without real roots or destination . |
| 13 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 14 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 15 | Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter . |
| 16 | She felt as if she were floating in limbo , beyond conscience , beyond responsibility and even beyond reality . |
| 17 | She felt as if she could float up into the starry night . |
| 18 | She felt as if she could trust Bernard . |
| 19 | As she spoke she felt as if she were stepping into Jake 's craziness , becoming part of it . |
| 20 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 21 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 22 | She felt as if she were lying naked on a hot rock , stretching languorously towards the sun . |
| 23 | Overworked and depressed , she felt as if she were being turned into a glamorous business machine . |
| 24 | He was the man she loved , and she felt as if she were floating above the ground . |
| 25 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 26 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 27 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
| 28 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 29 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 30 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |