Example sentences of "she felt [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
| 2 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 4 | She felt it did n't altogether suit her . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was an impossible position , ’ one of them pointed out , ‘ and very stifling because she felt you had to be part of the greater family and do everything with them . |
| 6 | She felt I had something to say , a strength , and she was willing to staff to my weaknesses to make sure that it was said . |
| 7 | I asked her to tell me when she reached the point in the imagined scene where she felt she wished to stop walking along the street . |
| 8 | For some reason she felt she owed him a serious answer . |
| 9 | She talked about it today partly because she was warm , relaxed and happy , but more because she felt she owed it to Leo . |
| 10 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 11 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 12 | She felt she belonged there . |
| 13 | She had always been interested in beauty culture and hair-styling , so she took a job with a small hairdressing parlour in Stepney to learn the tricks of the trade and when she felt she knew enough , gave in her notice and advertised her services : Lady clients visited in the comfort and privacy of their own homes . |
| 14 | She had taken the opportunity to read so much about the social work of the Army she felt she knew the history , background , areas of special need inside out in theory . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was her over-active imagination , or maybe she was getting used to that strange bland face and the enormous overhanging whale-like brow , but she felt she saw fear flit across it , momentarily . |
| 16 | She felt she deserved it . |
| 17 | She felt she 'd lived a zillion eternities , crossed endless lifeless galaxies , bearing her solitude , waiting for US , waiting for the fulfilment of all that lay between them . |
| 18 | WHEN Stephanie Cole went to the read-through of the BBC2 film Memento Mori , there were so many famous names present that she felt she 'd stumbled into Who 's Who in the Theatre . |
| 19 | ‘ I allus knew she would , some time ; when she felt she 'd done my Jake enough harm . |
| 20 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 21 | She felt she had shocked him and his response was to wing slightly out of control . |
| 22 | She felt she had found her own style in O Pioneers , a style as loose , as fluid , as unemphatic , as shifting as the fine earth of the endless prairies she wrote about . |
| 23 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 24 | She felt she had created a little peaceful corner where she could sit and feel close to both her late mother and her cat . |
| 25 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 26 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 27 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 28 | With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others . |
| 29 | While she had n't actually been demoted , she felt she had been moved sideways , possibly because word had drifted through to those in authority who controlled our movements that the American already had a wife and children in the States . |
| 30 | She felt she had found two friends . |