Example sentences of "felt a " 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 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
| 3 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 4 | ‘ They ca n't have felt a thing . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There had been a heavy fall of snow , and my father , clearing the path in front of our house , had suddenly felt a terrible pain in his chest . |
| 10 | Charity had never felt a true patriot whichever way she might analyse the term , but it seemed to matter that Britain now lay defenceless in the path of a monstrous hybrid composed of two powerful ideologies . |
| 11 | Ever since then I have felt a terrible claustrophobia in a small theatre . |
| 12 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 13 | Rattling to the airport in a taxi after despairing of the scheduled bus , I had felt a free-floating grumpiness , a symptom of the thin layers of anxiety which I had found coat the start of any journey in Latin America . |
| 14 | He had also felt a stinging sensation every time he passed urine . |
| 15 | Then I had felt a someone : the centre of all attention and an exceedingly important person . |
| 16 | At first he had felt a little out of place , but had finally arranged to play football once a week with other members of the centre . |
| 17 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 18 | Since their move , the wife has felt a burden lifted from her shoulders , and has been restored to her former carefree self . |
| 19 | JOE STALIN 'S favourite scientist , the late Trofim Denosovich Lysenko , would surely have felt a spiritual kinship with the fleeing management of the American Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 20 | Previous generations may also have felt a passing pang of regret as they allowed the younger generation to take their place , but they were not subjected to the pressure to stay young which affects men and women of forty or fifty today . |
| 21 | When he said that about kidneys and tigers I 'd felt a shock of fear . |
| 22 | I 'd felt a bit sticky and dirty first thing but it 'd worn off now . |
| 23 | Said one gentleman , ‘ I have felt a lot better in myself . |
| 24 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
| 25 | Had they felt a flicker of disrespect , he wondered , dressing for a jamboree which was now more like a wake ? |
| 26 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 27 | When they had first come to live at Thorsbury , she had felt a little piqued by Stephen 's neglect of her , while realising that his obsession with work was not really of his own choosing . |
| 28 | He had been surprised at Sam 's willingness to stay , and had even felt a flicker of jealousy when he had flopped contentedly down in the grass beside the boy 's feet . |
| 29 | All I know is that I 've felt a mite sadder every time an indie distributor like Making Waves or Red Rhino have hit the dust . |
| 30 | Asleep , he 'd felt a terrible pain in his upper arm . |