Example sentences of "feel as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Because she 'd abruptly felt as if her heart would burst if she did n't let him touch her , kiss her , hold her in his arms again , and then the desire had escalated so quickly that kissing had n't been enough ? |
2 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
3 | If my right hand had n't felt as if somebody had grafted a bunch of bananas on to it and then dipped it in acid , it would have been a pleasant experience . |
4 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
5 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |
6 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
7 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
8 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
9 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
10 | Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground . |
11 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
12 | He had never felt as if he belonged . |
13 | So many times she had felt as if he had just steamrollered his way right over her , refusing to listen to her arguments , just using his overpowering physical and mental strength to get his own way . |
14 | ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world . |
15 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
16 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
17 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
18 | By tightening security , ‘ hooligans ’ could be kept out by students and other college residents would once again feel as if they were ‘ prisoners ’ . |
19 | Looking Nicolo in the eye only made her knees feel as if they were going to buckle . |
20 | It made us feel as if we had progressed up the Bletchley ladder . |
21 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
22 | I do n't exactly feel as if we 'd had our monies worth there . |
23 | People should feel as if there is something wrong with this and be upset about what is happening to them . |
24 | It is a poem which uses plain , simple language and he holds it together using onomatopoeia and effective rhyme but you do not feel as if there is one definite clear-cut image or message in it . |
25 | I do feel as if my hands have turned to jelly . |
26 | Sorry to say this , but I did n't feel as if I liked any of the people I was involved with either . ’ |
27 | I do not feel as if I am well ; I 've got no energy , I 'm always cold , my fingers and toes are a weird shade of blue , and I know I spend a huge amount of time thinking about food . |
28 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
29 | Maybe I do n't feel as if I exist in my own right . |
30 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |