Example sentences of "i can feel " in BNC.

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1 As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead .
2 We , d jam , going through things like ‘ I Can Feel The Fire ’ from Ron Wood 's solo album which was out around that time .
3 I can feel this happy feeling bubbling in my tummy .
4 I can feel the lorries every time they go past — the ground sort of shakes like a whatnot — an earthquake .
5 It 's weird walking on it — I can feel my feet sink into it like I 'm walking on rubber .
6 I can feel the British people moving very fast towards a position we 've held with some electoral drag for a number of years .
7 It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine .
8 As a participant I can feel the difference between genuinely regretting something and signalling such a feeling .
9 My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl .
10 I know lots of people ca n't understand that , one of which is my accountant , but I feel I must put something back , it 's the only way I can feel comfortable about all the money I 've made . ’
11 I can feel the blows myself ! ’
12 I can feel the perspiration trickling down my back .
13 I can feel them getting hungrier and hungrier , then we all sit down to eat , or ‘ greeze ’ as they say down South .
14 I can feel it .
15 ‘ It 's going , ’ says Hal , ‘ I can feel it going . ’
16 If I know the tunes , the music and the moods in which they were brought up , I can feel more at home with them . ’
17 I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps .
18 I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below …
19 I can feel it , it 's hard and heavy and lumpy . ’
20 ‘ If I feel the tension building up behind my temples , I hold the crystal tightly in my right hand and I can feel the pain slowly seeping away . ’
21 Out of sight of the child you pass the coin from the left to right hand and continue rubbing with the right hand only saying ‘ I think I can feel it coming ’ until eventually you say : ‘ There it is , it 's come back ! ’
22 when I can feel that the sole responsibility rests on me for everything , whether it be a small crisis like this [ the Munshi rising ] , with the necessary action taken to preserve life , and to re-establish prestige or whether it be , as my day 's task has been , to confirm the hanging of criminals or the penal servitude , or the petty punishments of others , watching jealously that the executive officer does not inflict punishments which are unfair , or that the legal adviser does not hamper true justice by technical objections .
23 What I like is that I can feel the movement and it all gets transmitted to the fingers .
24 I can feel sea breezes .
25 I can feel the warmth from the oven .
26 I can feel it . ’
27 You 're lonely , Lee , I can feel it , despite all your friends , your ghosts . ’
28 I can feel how large and hard and dry his hand is round my damp and childish one .
29 ( ‘ Oh goody , ’ says the Ego , ‘ I can feel guilty about feeling guilty now ! ’ )
30 The lumps on my body disappeared within days , but already I can feel the familiar ‘ bruising ’ sensations on my neck , an indication that one is about to appear .
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