Example sentences of "felt [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event .
2 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
3 I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing .
4 He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there .
5 The train hastened through the flat Thames Valley fields and flat Western suburbs with single-minded impatience ; Tessa felt that everyone aboard , like herself , must be on the way to some metropolitan sexual encounter .
6 Blake felt that everyone was looking at him .
7 There were times , however , when I felt that something , more active , more positive was needed , to be much used later in the year .
8 ‘ As I padded down the passage to the kitchen , I felt that something was wrong .
9 ‘ One of the problems ’ , said Nigel Howkins of the JMT , ‘ has been that while our initiative was underway , people felt that something was being done about Mar Lodge ’ .
10 I was very happy teaching pretty little Adèle in the daytime , and talking to kind old Mrs Fairfax in the evening , but I felt that something was missing from my life .
11 He felt that something was waiting out there , that to venture beyond the lights ' pale embrace for whatever reason — necessity , whim or duty — was to take one 's life in one 's hands .
12 And Dyson felt that something ought to be said .
13 Suddenly he felt that something was wrong .
14 For that moment we all felt that something odd and unpleasant had just happened — and was likely to happen again .
15 I ca n't describe it , but I felt that something was wrong .
16 Although he did not underestimate the dangers of insurgent Communism , and considered it pathetic that the Soviet leaders should have as their strict aim the overtaking of the Capitalist states , he still felt that something might come out of Russia from which all might benefit .
17 ‘ I came here tonight because I felt that something was wrong , and that you might need me .
18 They were the products of the free institutions of which Britons are bidden to think with pride … one duty was clear : even the vaguest altruist felt that something ought to be done about it .
19 I felt that what I was really talking about was my confusion over what I want , what I like and what I do n't like .
20 You always felt that what he said was right .
21 Bass guitarists included Mo Foster , and Lee Sklar who played on a track for us , but we did n't use what he did , as we felt that what we already had was better .
22 Some people felt that what West Belfast needs is the development of an industrial base rather than the current proliferation of shopping centres .
23 Many felt that what had happened may have been within the laws of the game but was certainly outside the spirit , and could have serious consequences for the rest of the tour .
24 Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp .
25 Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty .
26 I must say when I read that in 's letter , I did n't read that specific erm comment , I read something , something much much wider really , that , that really I felt that what she was saying was you know that when , when there is a group , then readers er musicians , everybody else reflect together and come together before they actually , you know , they do n't all operate the same but they come together and they reflect together on what the , the theme is , or you know , what was the main point of the readings .
27 And , I think Alan , this actually arose in , in , erm , our suggestions because you felt that what do with procedures .
28 So you never felt I mean presumably you never felt that yourself and therefore and also perhaps if you 've never come across Fair enough .
29 She felt that nothing could destroy it now .
30 The therapist judged that Margaret had made a very serious attempt to kill herself , that she was severely depressed and a continuing suicide risk , Although Margaret felt that nothing could be done to help her she agreed to be admitted to a psychiatric unit .
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