Example sentences of "felt that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L think most people felt that during the early stages of the miners , strike the British Coal balance with Scargill was not strong enough . |
| 2 | There were then , as there are today , young people from other groups who , irrespective of academic ability or social class , felt that through teaching they would be serving future generations . |
| 3 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 4 | ‘ We felt that between us we had the right mix of skills . ’ |
| 5 | She felt that between them , they had cheated her . |
| 6 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 7 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 8 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 9 | That night had been particularly joyous , because Ashi felt that at last her family was allowing her to blossom fully into womanhood . |
| 10 | With his guilt over Anthony , he felt that at least she loved him and did n't blame him for the death . |
| 11 | In 1758 an expedition following a more northerly route than the one taken by Braddock was able to capture Fort Duquesne , which was renamed Pittsburgh by grateful Pennsylvanians who felt that at last a British politician had emerged who understood American needs . |
| 12 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 13 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |
| 14 | Rabbi Moishe felt that at last the past was about to bear sweet fruit . |
| 15 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 16 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 17 | Mr McAteer said that he felt that at times his flow of questions was interrupted . |
| 18 | Many felt that to be denied the use of a fishing net for 4 months each year was the removal of a fundamental human right . |
| 19 | Yet Amiss felt that to a group of paranoid old men the Admiral 's conduct must have appeared worrying . |
| 20 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 21 | One of the most significant constitutional developments of the nineteenth century , however , had been the emergence of the primacy of the House of Commons and , whereas it was tolerable that the Commons should reject a Lords Bill , it was becoming felt that for the Lords to reject a Commons Bill was inconsistent with the newly established democratic basis of the British political system . |
| 22 | He did n't want them either , but he felt that for Timmy 's sake she should take what was on offer . |
| 23 | The summer was tranquil and fairly uneventful ; Jonadab Oaks felt that for once , Nature was working with him instead of against him . |
| 24 | Possibly he felt that for her to inherit control of a shipping company might be an embarrassment to her husband in his political career . |
| 25 | ‘ So her father must have been a canon , ’ said Mark , though he felt that for some reason it was the canon 's widow who cut more ice here . |
| 26 | He felt that for staff outside Government division the future looked alarming . |
| 27 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 28 | He felt that on the final day of their three-day visit the inspectors went through the files with the respective partners too quickly . |
| 29 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
| 30 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |