Example sentences of "he [modal v] feel [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon 'e should feel right at 'ome . |
| 2 | He may feel anxious , depressed or moody as well as positive and excited . |
| 3 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |
| 4 | Explain that the patient 's mouth will become dry and he may feel sleepy . |
| 5 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 6 | William realised that he should feel contented with his lot , but he was not . |
| 7 | At first she had even felt vaguely flattered that he should feel jealous , as if , in some way , it was a kind of measure of the way he cared . |
| 8 | It seemed odd that he should feel ill at ease among the people whose vernacular he has espoused so wholeheartedly . |
| 9 | If , further , he feels that the free market policies and values embraced by Mrs Thatcher have done much to create a divided nation , dominated by Pharisees , he should feel free to offer his opinion . |
| 10 | He should not get too emotional , moody , tearful or truculent , especially if he ca n't explain why to his own and other people 's satisfaction , and if he does he should feel concerned . |
| 11 | How much I owe to his continuing good health , that he should feel able and eager , at eighty-two years of age , to entertain poets and undergraduates and mathematical professors and political thinkers so early in the day , and to tell the anecdote of the Bust with his habitual fervour without too much delaying the advent of buttered toast . |
| 12 | He 'll feel obliged to go all the way to Paddington with her — she 'll never manage all that stuff on her own . |
| 13 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 14 | I was hoping he might feel able to support me in breaking the news to the Dersinghams . ’ |
| 15 | He could feel proud of himself . |
| 16 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 17 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , however humble the business , the City did not take kindly to outsiders trading within its boundaries ; William Charles had a bit of bureaucracy to sort out before he could feel safe and settled . |
| 19 | He could feel resentful , and even angry , and that 's not the best possible start for a pregnancy , or for a family . |
| 20 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 21 | Almost as if without one or two eccentricities he would feel characterless . |
| 22 | Her mother would be cross and he would feel stupid . |
| 23 | He would feel lost in somewhere like Darlington or Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | With the vicar 's views on hellfire she was sure she would not go unpunished , that he would feel obliged to deputise for God . |
| 25 | But sooner or later Mrs Longhill must write to her father and he would feel obliged to speak to Ruth 's family . |
| 26 | If she did , he would feel obliged to tell her nothing . |
| 27 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 28 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 29 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 30 | James would like it there , he would feel comfortable in its masculine simplicity . |