Example sentences of "felt [pers pn] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 3 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 4 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 5 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 6 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 7 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |