Example sentences of "have felt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget Riley had no intention of either presenting an account of Poussin 's aims and procedures , or of demonstrating Veronese 's debts to his predecessors in Venetian art , as a historian would have felt a duty to do . |
| 2 | The public clearly believed that this ‘ restoration ’ would enhance the building 's interest despite destroying an historic element ; he must also have felt that a new timber framed facade , despite its inauthenticity , would give the pub an ‘ historic ’ character that was more readily recognisable and instantly attractive to potential customers . |
| 3 | ‘ I reckon I know how Leonardo da Vinci must have felt . ’ |
| 4 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 5 | Any relief Widnes might have felt at the non-appearance of the injured Meninga after half-time evaporated when Myler departed with a head wound a minute after the restart . |
| 6 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 7 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 8 | A source close to the investigation said : ‘ Although there was no obligation to notify the authority , one might have felt that under the circumstances they should have done . ’ |
| 9 | Harold Macmillan , prime minister since 1957 and an Anglican wanting to do the best for the Church , was sure to ask Fisher for his advice and would have felt scandalous if he had not . |
| 10 | However confident the mass of the population may have felt in the durability of Britain 's world role , those who ruled in Britain knew full well the kind of dangers the country faced and the need to take steps to meet them … |
| 11 | Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he had n't had an audience , and lines to speak ? |
| 12 | How could it have felt to be lonely and dumb ? |
| 13 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 14 | ‘ They ca n't have felt a thing . ’ |
| 15 | I would have felt bad all day otherwise . ’ |
| 16 | Others who have appreciated the painted ceilings , mullioned windows and carved bays of that supremely beautiful room must have felt that one of its great charms resided in the absence of modern furniture and tobacco smoke . |
| 17 | Or , apropos of the necessity of having a good historical imagination when reading , ‘ I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them . ’ |
| 18 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 21 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 22 | ‘ When I see things like the series Confessional on TV I feel like a black person must have felt watching the Black and White Minstrel show . |
| 23 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 24 | Nameless Lives : Sir Robert Peel ( 1788-1850 ) , who became Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1812 after Spencer Perceval was assassinated and Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister for what must have felt for ever . |
| 25 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 26 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 27 | But in Beijing on March 25th , as he plodded through a three-hour speech at the opening session of China 's annual parliament , the National People 's Congress , some at least of the 3,000 delegates must have felt a twinge of sympathy . |
| 28 | If only she had come in shouting ‘ What 's this ? ’ and chucked the lot at him , he would have felt something had been achieved . |
| 29 | ‘ For myself , ’ Mrs Parvis went on , ‘ I 'd have felt more excited like , if it 'd finished lost summer . |
| 30 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |