Example sentences of "felt [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Blake felt that everyone was looking at him . |
| 5 | There were times , however , when I felt that something , more active , more positive was needed , to be much used later in the year . |
| 6 | ‘ As I padded down the passage to the kitchen , I felt that something was wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And Dyson felt that something ought to be said . |
| 11 | Suddenly he felt that something was wrong . |
| 12 | For that moment we all felt that something odd and unpleasant had just happened — and was likely to happen again . |
| 13 | I ca n't describe it , but I felt that something was wrong . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I came here tonight because I felt that something was wrong , and that you might need me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You always felt that what he said was right . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some people felt that what West Belfast needs is the development of an industrial base rather than the current proliferation of shopping centres . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And , I think Alan , this actually arose in , in , erm , our suggestions because you felt that what do with procedures . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | While they acknowledged they did not feel themselves to be happy at work — their lot was ‘ to work ’ — they felt that nothing could be changed because they did not have the knowledge . |
| 30 | I think she felt that nothing much would happen for a few years . |