Example sentences of "felt myself " in BNC.

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1 I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair .
2 ‘ I felt myself responsible for the problem of radio-active contamination from nuclear explosions ’ , he wrote later .
3 I felt myself blush .
4 I felt myself blush .
5 As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing .
6 But I felt myself being picked up and swept heavenward .
7 Confronted with Dolle I felt myself becoming a punk mafia dude .
8 Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below .
9 The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment .
10 ‘ I confess I felt myself rather ill-used .
11 I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky .
12 I went very hot and felt myself redden .
13 Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area .
14 I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come .
15 Both physically and emotionally I felt myself to be younger than ( inferior to ) my two younger sisters .
16 at this stage that I made the unconscious decision , later to manifest itself in physiological terms , to postpone sexuality until I felt myself ready to cope with it .
17 Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be .
18 My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around .
19 For me , death , like sexuality , was an aspect of the adult world , with which I felt myself incapable of coming to terms .
20 Needless to say , I never felt myself equal to such a mission .
21 I felt myself shake with anger .
22 I felt myself inflating slowly with rage , like a tyre .
23 I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another .
24 you see , and I felt myself well they 're , they 're Plymouth , they were all born in Devonport and Plymouth
25 I felt myself wreckage , marooned by the tide .
26 Now , I felt myself drying up , burning with a slow flame and , like a piece of paper , crumbling to dust when he sought to ignite my interest .
27 Inside , I felt myself smile .
28 I felt myself turning hot and cold .
29 I felt myself turn pale with the sort of impotent fury a goldfish in a bowl might feel .
30 For the first time I really felt myself become part of a tribal circle , accepted as an elder simply by being a foreigner .
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