Example sentences of "[coord] felt a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mueller never turned a hair , or felt a twinge of remorse . |
| 2 | He taught once a week in the primary school and felt a failure at it . |
| 3 | She rang the doorbell , listened to the silence within and felt a moment of panic . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a gardener , ’ Phoebe said , and felt a simple pride in the fact . |
| 5 | Then we both had a good cry together , and felt a lot better after a good strong cup of tea . |
| 6 | While Charles listened to all this good advice , he drank up his glass of champagne and felt a bit better . |
| 7 | Wilson saw the doubt in her eyes and the droop of her body and felt a shiver pass through her own . |
| 8 | And he looked away at the crowd so near to him and felt a stab of real fear . |
| 9 | She went to shooting practice and scored three bullseyes in succession and felt a lot better . |
| 10 | I culled the German newspapers for new words and idioms and felt a little smug for having done ‘ something useful ’ . |
| 11 | I looked and felt a walking cadaver . |
| 12 | Carefully Sally moved against it and felt a sort of yearning begin in the sensitised area between her thighs . |
| 13 | Kelly shook Jack 's hand and felt a shiver of excitement run through her body as they touched . |
| 14 | Most of the minority who were suddenly faced with ‘ pecuniary embarrassment ’ would have taken fright and felt a sense of failure , if not disgrace — sometimes needlessly , and for the most part would not have displayed it openly . |
| 15 | He saw the moving mouth of the man so nearly dead ; the stain on the waistcoat , and felt a strengthening of the foreboding that had never left him . |
| 16 | That same night , Avril rolled over in bed and felt a lump in her breast . |
| 17 | Edouard looked at him , and felt a sickening dismay . |
| 18 | He looked at Pauline Simonescu , and felt a great and total relief , as if a burden of enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 19 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 20 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 21 | I threw myself flat and heard a ‘ whompf ’ and felt a mild warm blast of air . |
| 22 | I wiped my eyes and felt a bit better , knowing that Granny was taking my message with her to heaven . |
| 23 | She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face . |
| 24 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |
| 25 | She saw the Perks flinch and blink , and felt a certain vengeful delight . |
| 26 | ‘ Is your father at home ? ’ she asked and felt a sinking disappointment when Ben shook his head . |
| 27 | She could sense his eyes on her and felt a sudden bashfulness . |
| 28 | Danny looked into the blazing grey eyes of his friend and felt a sudden urge to throw his arms around him . |
| 29 | George drove past and felt a terrible anger replace his elation . |
| 30 | She watched her mother and daughter talking together and felt a deep hurt , as if she had somehow been the cause of it all . |