Example sentences of "felt as if [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a filthy taste in his mouth and his lips felt as if they had been stung . |
| 2 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
| 3 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 4 | He felt as if something had torn inside him . |
| 5 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 10 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 11 | Clare felt as if she had won a sweepstake . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |
| 14 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |
| 15 | She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination . |
| 16 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 17 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 18 | All in all , she felt as if she had been ravaged ! |
| 19 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 20 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 21 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 22 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 23 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 24 | I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 26 | I had no friends , I felt as if I had nobody . " |
| 27 | I felt as if I had been hit . |
| 28 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 29 | His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it . |
| 30 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |