Example sentences of "felt as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 2 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 3 | There was a filthy taste in his mouth and his lips felt as if they had been stung . |
| 4 | My legs felt as if they had gone to sleep : I trod painfully on nothing . |
| 5 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 6 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 7 | Abruptly , the dark head was bent to hers again , the compulsive brush of his lips against the side of her neck so searing it felt as if they grazed her skin . |
| 8 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 9 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 10 | He felt as if something had torn inside him . |
| 11 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 12 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
| 13 | Ace felt as if she 'd been struck . |
| 14 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 15 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 16 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 17 | She felt as if she 'd already been questioned on the rack , and fitzAlan had n't even tried to force any definite answers out of her . |
| 18 | She felt as if she 'd been dipped in slime . |
| 19 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 20 | She felt as if she 'd uncovered a dark pit of long-buried feelings , and she was terrified of peering too far inside in case she could n't cope with the contents … |
| 21 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 22 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 23 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 24 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 25 | Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter . |
| 26 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 27 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 28 | Clare felt as if she had won a sweepstake . |
| 29 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 30 | Jessamy knew her words were cruel , but she felt as if she had been pushed very near to her limit . |