Example sentences of "felt for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 2 | Cameron wanted time to think ; he was in a turmoil of emotions ; he felt for Sandy 's grievance even while he was blenching at the man 's mad certainty that a day of reckoning was near . |
| 3 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 4 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 5 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 6 | McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s . |
| 7 | At times he felt tender and protective towards her , but sometimes he surprised himself by the hatred he felt for her , because she was healthy and free and had no need of him . |
| 8 | Obviously I felt for him , I would n't have been too delighted if our positions had been reversed ; and they could so easily have been . |
| 9 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 10 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 11 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 12 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 13 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 14 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 15 | I felt for his pulse , but could feel none . |
| 16 | That 's your — ’ he felt for the word ’ — facilities . ’ |
| 17 | Thacker felt for his flask , then remembered it was empty . |
| 18 | But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ . |
| 19 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 20 | She felt for it , and brought it out . |
| 21 | Tongue out , as if licking the beer from his lips , Trent felt for the wind . |
| 22 | The most recent outrage was the work of Count Orsini , who had been moved to his attempt by the hatred he felt for Napoleon III , whom he blamed for his failure to help the Italian national movement . |
| 23 | I took deep breaths and felt for my moneybelt and the stiffness of traveller 's cheques secreted about me . |
| 24 | Her left elbow was tingling too and as she felt for it with her right hand she found that the sleeve of her blouse had been torn . |
| 25 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 26 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 27 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 28 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 29 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 30 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |