Example sentences of "felt it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were an Iraqi missile strike so serious that Israel felt it had to retaliate , an air corridor would have to be cleared by the American command in Saudi Arabia to allow the Israeli raid . |
| 2 | There were those like Hugh Price Hughes who joined in the reaction against individualism because they felt it had narrowed the churches ' work among working people : |
| 3 | I nodded a yeah-they-don't-know-shit nod and something small and mean inside me felt it had got even . |
| 4 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 5 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 6 | He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | But when England drew 1-1 with Eire at Wembley , Taylor felt it had gone too far . |
| 8 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 9 | I certainly felt it had done me good and now whenever I recall it , I smile . |
| 10 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 11 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 13 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 14 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |
| 15 | Europe felt it had contained this communist menace within itself . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you were so vulnerable , I felt it had been unfair of me to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 17 | felt it had not helped embalming as it was not in a sufficiently dignified manner . |
| 18 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 20 | I felt it had to be a heart attack . |
| 21 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 22 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |