Example sentences of "it felt [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her it felt right to be there with David , her skin soft against his , her senses alive to his touch , and she succeeded in banishing her fears of what would happen when they stepped out of their circle of magic and back into the real world . |
| 2 | It felt good to be active again after the days cooped in the library 's shade . |
| 3 | It felt good to be just a little bit crazy for once in her life . |
| 4 | It felt good to be back in harness again . |
| 5 | ‘ It felt good to be out there . |
| 6 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 7 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 8 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 9 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 10 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 11 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 12 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 13 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 14 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 15 | It felt strange to be in possession of two hats . |
| 16 | It felt strange to her touch . |
| 17 | It felt strange to be working so close to their audiences . |
| 18 | It felt strange to be watching in silence all those lives going on , and although we were aware of all the comings and goings of their lives , they did n't even know we existed . |
| 19 | It felt strange to be back in Dublin , to be home , the city both familiar and alien . |
| 20 | A sudden thought struck him , and he realised that before he had left Ireland , his mother had insisted that he was accompanied everywhere … maybe that was why it felt strange to be here without a chaperon . |
| 21 | It felt strange to be alone in a chamber with such a solicitous , beautiful young woman . |
| 22 | It felt strange to be letting himself into his own house again . |
| 23 | And she had to confess , much as she hated to , that it felt nice to be on amicable terms with Jake . |
| 24 | It felt odd to be alone in a church . |
| 25 | It felt wrong to me , but only there . |
| 26 | It had been easy to agree to Sniffy 's request from the safety of the office but it felt different to be taking the orders of a stranger from Sniffy 's brutal underworld . |
| 27 | It felt cold to his fingers . |