Example sentences of "[pron] it feels [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I 'm thinking oh it 's hard , when I actually feel it it feels thicker at the end and it does feel better but when I 've washed it , I shall feel all hairy now all afternoon . |
| 2 | The , I mean it 's only anecdotal , but it feels to me as though the the increase they experienced in June has continued into er July , I know that 's not what we 're looking at but it it feels that way , erm |
| 3 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 4 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 5 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 6 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 7 | Ignore what it feels like , concentrate on the journey . |
| 8 | He remembers what it feels like to experience intense hunger and profound thirst , irrational loathing and sublime contentment . |
| 9 | He remembers vividly ( not necessarily articulately ) what it feels like to be isolated , to be partnered , to be set adrift , to be reclaimed . |
| 10 | It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too . |
| 11 | But unless you know how to do this , and what it feels like , this is very difficult to gauge . |
| 12 | It needs to be , for an unfit smallholder has little hope of success , and too few people know what it feels like to be really fit . |
| 13 | So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig . |
| 14 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 15 | It is important to understand what it feels like to be truly relaxed and to become aware of those times when we are not . |
| 16 | ‘ When you reach our age , you 'll know what it feels like to have frost in yer bones . ’ |
| 17 | An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA . |
| 18 | Perhaps the easiest way to explain is to ask you to imagine what it feels like to be lying tucked up , snug and warm , in your own bed at night and being somewhere in that half-and-half land where you are neither completely asleep nor fully awake . |
| 19 | I know what it feels like to be a babe . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When I read reports in newspapers I get terribly upset , because I know what it feels like , that those are real people experiencing those things , ’ says Alexandra . |
| 21 | I wonder what it feels like to live nearly for ever ? |
| 22 | Another way to express this motivating power of individualism is to say that we have a tremendously strong interest in explaining at least some social phenomena in individualist terms , since this enables us to explain ourselves to ourselves ; to see what it feels like to be in someone else 's shoes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Describe what it feels like to be in prison . ’ |
| 25 | First and most importantly , you have to appreciate what it feels like to lose your job and , with it , the sureness that you can feed and clothe and take care of yourself and your dependants in the way you 're used to . |
| 26 | She , and many of the women like her whom I met , still does all the housework , just like before , and on top of that has to manage the effect of her husband 's traumatic discovery of something women have always known — what it feels like to be economically dependent . |
| 27 | Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed . |
| 28 | Ask Linford Christie about what it feels like to run the thing — a stupid question , really , but one 's metaphysical yearnings make one try it — and what can he say ? |
| 29 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out , one at a time ? |
| 30 | Similarly a doctor said : ‘ Very many people have told me they can talk to me because I know what it feels like to have an illness . |