Example sentences of "he felt it " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , it was clear that the wisest Cambridge leaders whom he could consult would not regard his going as betrayal if he felt it right .
2 He felt it a necessary part of his vocation .
3 He felt it as a bereavement .
4 He felt it was ‘ an inevitable process ’ .
5 He said he wanted to establish that countries deal with their own waste but he felt it was too early to impose a complete ban on imports .
6 During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him
7 He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be .
8 He felt it would be a good idea to show her what she was missing by taking that ‘ I 'll ask my parents ’ line .
9 As the absent soldiers who had overstayed their leave mostly came from Ireland , he felt it was n't his fault .
10 As they reached the entrance gate , he felt it was time to add : ‘ Look , this was n't my idea , you know .
11 It is a measure of the enthusiasm which he observed that , when Sadler duly provided a reading-list — tactfully headed with the ‘ King 's Book ’ , an episcopal compilation in which Henry VIII had had a hand — he felt it necessary to advise caution ; religious works circulating too freely had their own dangers , as Henry had recognized , when he passed an act in that year forbidding the reading of them by unfit groups , women , artificers and labourers .
12 He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing .
13 He felt it was possible and he opted to at least try to stay out of the glitterama ; and , as the movie industry would soon learn , this cool-headed assessment of the way he hoped his career would pan out would soon include his rejection of many scripts including The Godfather , The Sting and The Great Gatsby .
14 As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class .
15 At that moment I think he felt it was Greg 's day .
16 There , he felt it again , a draining , a threat of something alien , ugly , giving vent from within .
17 It was wonderful , he felt it too ; I had found my musical director .
18 And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified .
19 Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject .
20 Dean 's death had a profound effect on him — maybe he felt it to be a premonition .
21 Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ?
22 The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' .
23 He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy .
24 I think he felt it most when my aunts came to visit us .
25 When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London .
26 He said that he felt it was unfair that his wife should reprimand Jenny as she was so young and did not know how to share properly yet .
27 Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction .
28 He felt it at his face and his fingers and his back and his arms , felt it at his buttocks and privates and thighs .
29 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
30 He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ .
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