Example sentences of "feel the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their relationships and marriage alliances did not conduce to peace , but they commonly gave the warfare of the period the appearance of civil war , even though the rank and file of the soldiers can hardly have felt the bond which united the leaders on both sides . |
| 2 | The thecodonts started off small , so their surface areas were large in comparison with their volume ; they could have felt the cold more , and a heat-transmitting skin was a liability . |
| 3 | He , too , had felt the dampness seep in and yet , due to the broad sweeps of my pole and perhaps the motion of the lake , we had already travelled yards from the shore . |
| 4 | She had felt the excitement in the air the minute she had stepped off the boat . |
| 5 | Walking from the taxi to his apartment , Ross had felt the sting and throb in his face for the first time . |
| 6 | They had fought back , and it had felt the sting of their fight which had only served to make its hunger and hideous needs greater . |
| 7 | We have all felt the frustration of dealing with institutions and bureaucracy — receiving the institutional brush off , the failure to generate a spark of interest or concern , knowing that nothing will be done and nothing change in response to your grievance . |
| 8 | Origen had himself felt the difficulty . |
| 9 | He had felt the knife blade turning in his gut as he had talked , and he acknowledged it . |
| 10 | The South-East ‘ has felt the recession in every home , workplace , office , high street store and corner shop . |
| 11 | The Poitevin barons must have felt the way Henry Morgan 's old associates were to feel when he was appointed Governor of Jamaica with orders to stamp out piracy . |
| 12 | The ecstasy she 'd felt the night Rune had ensured the silence of the lur blowers in City Hall Square had overpowered and exhilarated her , but now it was eclipsed by the knowledge that he loved her . |
| 13 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 14 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 15 | I had felt the lure of the unexplored , the compulsion to go where others had not been . |
| 16 | Whilst Julia Browne 's interviews with animal portrait artists , none of whom have felt the effects of the recession in the art world , gives us any insight into a very different world , a world which rarely attracts any notice from the serious art press . |
| 17 | And , even if one existed , Ruthven would surely have felt the effects before he retired . ’ |
| 18 | Kylie has felt the pace and has spent the past 24 hours in bed with a stomach upset . |
| 19 | ‘ And no matter what people on the outside might have felt the selectors could not pick him purely on his form for Somerset . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have felt the benefit of a more relaxed approach this season . ’ |
| 21 | Her leaning presence was deliberate , challenging : I think I 'd even felt the play of her breath on my neck . |
| 22 | He and Helen had both felt the tensions for some years now . |
| 23 | He 'd felt the tightening in his throat and tasted the salt of his own tears in his mouth . |
| 24 | The repugnance she had felt the day before seemed absurd , unjust . |
| 25 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 26 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 27 | Even Barclays Bank has felt the pinch . |
| 28 | Manufacturers , distributors and retailers have all felt the pinch during the recession and some hard bargaining was going on over coffee and orange juice . |
| 29 | Darlington 's middle class voters , who swung the 1983 and 1987 elections in Mr Fallon 's favour have certainly felt the pinch . |
| 30 | I know too how intensely you have felt the influence of nature — its loveliness , its deep solemnity , its mystic , overwhelming power to strike awe and sometimes terror in our hearts . |