Example sentences of "he felt a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt a warmth . |
| 2 | He felt a spasm of cold foreboding as he spoke . |
| 3 | He felt a spasm of hatred so intense , so physical that it made him retch . |
| 4 | Ludens thought , she 's a puritan ; and he felt a sympathy with her and would have tarried , as he sensed that she wanted to talk to him . |
| 5 | He felt a twinge of embarrassment for the gaucheness of his youth . |
| 6 | He felt a twinge of unease even now at the memory . |
| 7 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 8 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 9 | He shuffled forward with bent head and arms folded tightly about his body as if he felt a mortal chill enclosing him . |
| 10 | As he joined in with her laughter he felt a qualm of uneasiness as to what ideas she was getting into her head with regard to his visiting in the future . |
| 11 | He felt a quickening of his pulse . |
| 12 | He felt a measure of guilt for visiting Tyler 's Hard without Dysart 's knowledge , but the impetus of his curiosity more than overcame it . |
| 13 | At the very thought he felt a tendency to tremble . |
| 14 | If he felt a pang of jealousy , it vanished at once . |
| 15 | He felt a pang of jealousy . |
| 16 | It was his first sight of his grandson and he felt a pang of anxiety as he looked down at him . |
| 17 | He felt a pang of jealousy , which was intensified when he remembered the smart army officers who had been at her husband 's memorial service . |
| 18 | Now he felt a pang at the closeness of life and death . |
| 19 | As his grasp closed he felt a shock . |
| 20 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 21 | Unlike most of those reading for the Bar or enrolled in university he felt a responsibility for less privileged Africans washed up on British shores , mainly seamen , who had no recognised place in Britain . |
| 22 | Again he ran his left hand through his hair , but this time he felt a tingle of anticipation . |
| 23 | He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men . |
| 24 | Along with other footballers , as I mentioned earlier , he felt a kind of mild predestination , believing himself to be a footballer even while at school ; though one wonders how many others who thought themselves predestined are now in factories or on milk rounds . |
| 25 | He felt a brimful of yearning — of some mixture of emotions that were hardly expressible , that must pour outwards . |
| 26 | Hazel was just wondering whether it would be worth while starting a side-passage to link Bigwig 's hole to Dandelion 's , when he felt a stamp of warning from somewhere close by . |
| 27 | He felt a tightness in his groin and muttered foul oaths : she was a fine lady with her laces and bows and arrogant looks but , between the sheets , a different matter , soft and pleading , turning and twisting beneath him . |
| 28 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 29 | For once he felt a sense of purpose enlivening his existence . |
| 30 | He thought it unlikely she would understand his arguments , and he felt a sense of distance , a moment 's regret , there and then gone . |