Example sentences of "he had felt the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On those occasions when he had felt the need to demonstrate his power to management , he would create an instant departmental dispute which always had the immediate effect of lowering that day 's efficiency to below fifty per cent . |
| 2 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 3 | Reflecting on the past life of the hospital , the Rev. Gussman recalled the sense of ‘ tremendous commitment to care ’ which he had felt the minute he went to Alton General . |
| 4 | He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia . |
| 5 | After that scything spray of stone he had felt the blood , but whatever had cut him , it was minor . |
| 6 | He had felt the truth of their analyses in the very marrow of his bones , yet he remained outside , forever outside . |
| 7 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 8 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 9 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 10 | Commander Abigail was not a heavy drinker , but after his gloomy morning walk he had felt the need of consolation and had found it in the Disraeli Lounge of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 11 | The fact that we had met Michael and Janet Roberts came up , and he was moved to explain that , with his growing acquaintanceship with the children of his friends — to several of whom he had become godfather — he had felt the need to adopt some sobriquet less solemn than Uncle . |
| 12 | But not before he had felt the painful thinness of her upper arm , the jutting of her hip against him . |
| 13 | He had felt the knife blade turning in his gut as he had talked , and he acknowledged it . |