Example sentences of "that i felt [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Thank God he did n't know what I was sure of , that I felt everything as if through a mattress .
2 The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market .
3 I told myself that I did n't feel cold , that I felt nothing , that I had ‘ shut off my nerves ’ .
4 Returning to Reine that afternoon , I caught sight of Jean-Claude slipping into the dark urban cleft that was the rue de Sèvres , and I noticed that I felt nothing , neither curi-osity nor apprehension .
5 I could have told you years ago how I feel about you instead of trying to pretend to myself that I felt nothing . ’
6 And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should .
7 The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself .
8 So you do see , do n't you , that I felt my hands were tied ? ’
9 It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight .
10 All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more .
11 Apart from my earlier comment that I felt it might be slightly otiose in the fact that you 've suggested within the preamble that a new settlement should be located beyond the outer boundary and I did raise the question of whether there was another greenbelt which may come into play .
12 This was something that I felt I had to speak up about . ’
13 That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself .
14 Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her .
15 ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again .
16 It was so close that I felt I could reach out and touch her .
17 Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’
18 What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics .
19 She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . "
20 There were two such concepts in particular that I felt I had to include .
21 ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out .
22 Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership .
23 For a few horrible moments I thought the motor would n't fire , but after several pulls it caught , then I just hooked my overnight bag over one shoulder , took the tiller and made for the shore , which looked so close that I felt I could have swum across . ’
24 Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford .
25 Her comments alongside her weekly measuring sessions said so much that I felt you would enjoy reading them too :
26 That I felt you should know your position if just such an event as this occurred ? ’
27 Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it .
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