Example sentences of "feel for the " in BNC.
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1 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
2 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
3 | Any guilt she many have felt for the loss of her son did not affect her longevity . |
4 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
5 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
6 | During it , the reader is put in a position with the boys — you want them to succeed , and no real sympathy is felt for the pigs . |
7 | The Literary Critic does n't understand English ; still less does it have any feel for the aesthetics of the language . |
8 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
9 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
10 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
11 | Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test . |
12 | She can not feel for the child she hurts . |
13 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
14 | He does feel for the young man . |
15 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
16 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
17 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
18 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
19 | The singing lines , the sense of momentum , of progression towards and relaxation from climaxes is gauged with a natural feel for the musical contours and the poetic expressiveness of both sonatas . |
20 | By the time the area basic training course starts , trainees should have a good feel for the work of their bureau , and CAB policy and practice . |
21 | I feel for the spider living in his strange world , this master craftsman who has been commissioned to beautify a small corner with his delicate work , and when the dew drops fall , for an instant , the world is made luminous and is transfigured . |
22 | Neither the Lamoureux nor ‘ Symphony Orchestra ’ in the early 1930s were first rate ensembles technically , but the authentic feel for the music is there , no mistake about it . |
23 | ‘ I feel for the place , ’ he says , ‘ and they need someone here to look after it . ’ |
24 | The basic structure and feel for the balances of nature ’ , as she describes it , inform her abstract work , itself often initially inspired by her landscape watercolours . |
25 | Natural gut strings are favoured by the professional players because of their ‘ playability ’ — their sensitivity and feel for the ball . |
26 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
27 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
28 | It has long been recognized that reading can provide young pupils with the chance to develop a general ‘ feel for the language ’ . |
29 | Tora ! is well in order , both to get a general feel for the events of the day and to regain an appreciation of the efforts expended to bring the saga to the wide screen . |
30 | Even when the swing is slightly out of tune , the really good golfer has such good feel for the ball and where it ought to go that he can produce a respectable shot most of the time . |