Example sentences of "he feel [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when we see him next , sexual desire has begun to eat away his conscience , and he feels possessed by ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ ( II.iv.6f . ) . |
| 2 | ( It is also true , however , that through misinformation and misleading press reports an alarming number of people increasingly think of him as a ‘ terrorist leader ’ ) He feels pressed by the black African leaders to the North who keep calling for him , to come and see them . |
| 3 | Now what tends to happen is , as you know , there is lots and lots of different guests on his chat show and if he feels threatened by them in any way shape or form , what he does he relaxes her , comes in over the top , turns them over , takes them by the shoulder and pushes them into the chair and what he is saying , he is saying , this is my chat show , do n't you submit . |
| 4 | He feels threatened by him , fine . |
| 5 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 6 | He felt garbed in the robes of responsibility and consequence as he spoke . |
| 7 | Simply by reminding himself of this fact , he felt inspired by a new confidence and was just about to lift Cleo physically from her seat when yet another resident of the house made an appearance . |
| 8 | He also said , rashly , that he felt stirred by the efforts of American radicals . |
| 9 | He felt irritated without knowing why , and addressed his daughter sharply . |
| 10 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 11 | As an illustrator , he felt limited by the unimaginative educational material offered to him . |
| 12 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 13 | From this material he felt justified in inferring that the universe of galaxies is isotropic about ourselves , and in due course , in inferring that it is homogeneous in the large . |
| 14 | Freud was so impressed by the amount of brutality men have inflicted on one another , and have continued to inflict on one another , that he felt justified in developing what he thought of as a mythology of two conflicting instincts : sexuality and death , Eros and Thanatos . |
| 15 | That approach to construction was approved by the House of Lords in In re Smith ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Braintree District Council [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 215 , in which Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle said , at p. 238 , that , in view of the changes in policy shown by the new Act , he felt justified in construing the provision of the Act of 1986 ‘ as a piece of new legislation without regard to 19th century authorities or similar provisions of repealed Bankruptcy Acts . ’ |
| 16 | Pte Clegg earlier told the trial he felt justified in firing four rounds into the front windscreen of the stolen Astra , as he felt the life of one of his co-accused , Pte Barry Aindow , was in danger . |
| 17 | The soldier told the hearing he felt justified in opening fire under Army rules written on the military ‘ yellow card ’ . |
| 18 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
| 19 | They were chilling words and he resented them because he felt prohibited from asking her to explain them . |
| 20 | MYSELF : He felt threatened by those students . |
| 21 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 22 | Instead of being condemned to death he felt condemned to life , like these worker-convicts in the rain and cold and mud of a no-man 's land . |
| 23 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 24 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |
| 25 | He felt caught between the frying pan and the fire with the literary women in his life . |
| 26 | His interest in zoology was lifelong : he later refused the chair of zoology in a South African university only because he felt committed to the preservation of Corsham . |
| 27 | He was the leader of by far the largest party , yet he felt committed by the Buckingham Palace arrangement to another Prime Minister . |
| 28 | On his tours he felt excluded from direct contact with the emirs and , worse , not particularly welcome in the Residencies . |
| 29 | He felt assailed by the bright brashness of everything and missed the soft darkness of the cottage . |
| 30 | A powerful , outgoing character , he felt cramped in a large organisation , and had much greater confidence than his employers in the future of headhunting . |