Example sentences of "feel [adj] that [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children must be heard , and must feel confident that they have an independent person to whom they can complain . |
| 2 | It makes me feel pleased that I 've achieved something in my chosen career . ’ |
| 3 | Now I feel grateful that I 've got someone who listens and who is there for me . |
| 4 | Finally , once you feel confident that you have selected the appropriate information , you can make notes and review your reading ( see next stage of strategy ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through . |
| 6 | I felt sorry that she had George Brown , completely pickled , on the other side of her . ’ |
| 7 | Above all , she felt guilty that she had persuaded Bill , who looked as happy as a man with a toothache , to make an appearance . |
| 8 | Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury . |
| 9 | She felt guilty that she had not yet been to visit Miss Grimes in her bed-sitting room somewhere off the Finchley Road , really within easy distance of where she lived , so there was really no excuse . |
| 10 | It was as though she had died again , only it was worse , and he felt guilty that he had n't wept properly when she 'd really died . |
| 11 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 12 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 13 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 14 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 15 | Just as a battle begins in a state of equilibrium between tile two sides , which gradually alters one way or the other , until it is clear that the balance has tilted so far that the issue can no longer be in doubt — so this gathering of rabbits in the dark , beginning with hesitant approaches , silences , pauses , movements , crouchings side-by-side and all manner of tentative appraisals , slowly moved , like a hemisphere of the world into summer , to a warmer , brighter region of mutual liking and approval , until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear . |
| 16 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 17 | He had papers in front of him , but Wycliffe felt sure that he had not been working . |
| 18 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 19 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 20 | After Rent 's execution the regime probably felt confident that it had overcome its enemies . |
| 21 | After studying large numbers of systems of kinship terms and placing them in an evolutionary sequence , partly in terms of their characteristics , partly in terms of the technological level reached by the societies from which they originated , Morgan felt confident that he had discovered a governing tendency in the history of human marriage : as social evolution progressed , the number of legitimate sexual partners a man or a woman could have diminished progressively , finally producing monogamy — the permanent union of one man and one woman . |
| 22 | He felt an immense relief that his nerve had come back , but he also felt ashamed that he had enjoyed the discovery . |
| 23 | Later Anne thought over Sarah 's words about clothes for people who needed them and felt ashamed that she had not thought of their plight . |
| 24 | She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape . |
| 25 | On the contrary , she felt happy that he 'd found true love at last . |
| 26 | Gazzer felt pleased that she had taken things so well . |
| 27 | After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence . |
| 28 | For the first time in over a month Charles felt certain that he had n't lost interest in sex . |
| 29 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 30 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |