Example sentences of "felt as if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt as if he felt I was a stranger . |
| 2 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 3 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 4 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 5 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 6 | He felt as if he had walked for miles and knew that he had certainly had too much to drink . |
| 7 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean — ’ Paul felt as if he had received a blow in the stomach . |
| 9 | Flaubert knew a choking sensation and felt as if he had swallowed flesh . |
| 10 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |
| 11 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 12 | Sometimes it felt as if he had less substance than the images in this room . |
| 13 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
| 14 | Maxim felt as if he had baked ( if that was what you did ) a perfect soufflé of evidence , all crisp and firm , and then floop : it was swimming off the plate and dripping on his shoes . |
| 15 | As the two sections of the bridge rose majestically into the air somehow it felt as if he had arranged it especially for her . |
| 16 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 17 | He felt as if he had only just remembered , after a long time , why he valued her . |
| 18 | ‘ Nathan ? ’ she called , and he called back , ‘ Yes ? ’ but there was no second call , and he turned round , and there was nobody there , not a sound , and he felt strange then , he felt as if he 'd been visited . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 20 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 21 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 22 | Isabel felt as if he 'd slapped her . |
| 23 | He felt as if he needed it . |