Example sentences of "[pers pn] feel [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 2 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 3 | Well , I mean I suppose erm I feel as a parent myself that it 's not possible to make tolerable for children a situation which is in fact humanly intolerable . |
| 4 | He looks like I feel on a very bad morning . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel like a bird , ’ said Jean . |
| 6 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , Bea , I feel like a shit as a matter of fact , but I ca n't live like this - . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like a new man , ’ he said as she put the flask away and combed the crumbs from the dashboard into her cupped hand . |
| 9 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 10 | I feel like a maggot in a carcass . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel like a million dollars ’ , said Ruth . |
| 12 | I feel like a wretched bird here , taken from its loved mate and caged , trying to sing cheerfully to its poor lonely loved one , but failing fearfully … . |
| 13 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |
| 14 | No one explains it to me , and I 'm bewildered ; I feel like a doll , lying on the hospital bed , paper thin — the little dolls I used to make when I was younger . |
| 15 | I feel like a 24 handicapper . ’ |
| 16 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 17 | I feel like a public meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel like a leper , all they need to do now is put a bell round my neck . ’ |
| 20 | I feel like a priest giving someone Last Rites , only this Priest wants to scream . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel like a whore . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I feel like a Maharajah waiting for the tiger to pounce on the tied-up goat , ’ Forster grinned . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel like a criminal , ’ he confessed innocently to Eva once , in a moment of forgetfulness , truth unfortunately sneaking through . |
| 24 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |
| 25 | One woman who sleeps apart from her husband said : ‘ When he comes into my room at night I feel like a girl of 18 . ’ |
| 26 | I feel like I can be a dominant force again , I feel like a 21-year-old . |
| 27 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel like a circus animal ’ — Robin-Anne ignored my disclaimer — ‘ because you 're all expecting me to perform my antics , and I 'm not sure I can do it . ’ |
| 29 | I feel like a damn old woman . |
| 30 | I feel like a naughty schoolkid who 's standing in front of the headmaster . |