Example sentences of "feel [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 2 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 3 | The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him . |
| 4 | They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ? |
| 5 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 6 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
| 7 | He had never felt as if he belonged . |
| 8 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |
| 9 | Because she 'd abruptly felt as if her heart would burst if she did n't let him touch her , kiss her , hold her in his arms again , and then the desire had escalated so quickly that kissing had n't been enough ? |
| 10 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
| 11 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
| 12 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
| 13 | If my right hand had n't felt as if somebody had grafted a bunch of bananas on to it and then dipped it in acid , it would have been a pleasant experience . |
| 14 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 15 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 16 | Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground . |
| 17 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |
| 18 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 19 | Sorry to say this , but I did n't feel as if I liked any of the people I was involved with either . ’ |
| 20 | I do not feel as if I am well ; I 've got no energy , I 'm always cold , my fingers and toes are a weird shade of blue , and I know I spend a huge amount of time thinking about food . |
| 21 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
| 22 | Maybe I do n't feel as if I exist in my own right . |
| 23 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 24 | It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder . |
| 25 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 26 | ‘ Peaks ’ is actually to give the wrong impression , anywhere else they would be no more than hills ; but on Amantani they give a commanding view of Lake Titicaca and make you feel as if you 're on top of the world . |
| 27 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 28 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 29 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 30 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |