Example sentences of "she felt as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if everything wondrous in the universe had started to sing to her . |
| 2 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 3 | She felt as if her heart had turned into a fist and was trying to punch its way out of her chest . |
| 4 | She leaped up the track and ran until she felt as if her lungs would burst . |
| 5 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 6 | She felt as if her heart were reflected there . |
| 7 | She felt as if her mind was detached from her body , she was light-headed , incapable of decisions . |
| 8 | There was enough to crowd out all but the most persistent of memories , however , for rehearsals were absolute mayhem , and from day one until the opening she felt as if her feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 9 | That being so , he was a joy to walk — which made it odd that she felt as if something was missing . |
| 10 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 11 | She felt as if someone had wrapped her thoughts in a blanket Reasoning seemed difficult ; actions were a major effort . |
| 12 | She felt as if someone had squeezed her heart hard and painfully . |
| 13 | Though , personally , she felt as if someone had injected her brain with a paralysing solution . |
| 14 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 15 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 19 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She felt as if she were floating on air . |
| 23 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She felt as if she were floating in limbo , beyond conscience , beyond responsibility and even beyond reality . |
| 29 | She felt as if she could float up into the starry night . |
| 30 | She felt as if she could trust Bernard . |