Example sentences of "felt it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the one hand , as a good Irish Catholic girl married to a man she loved and who could afford to support her , she felt it her duty as well as her wish to have a child .
2 Though it was clear that Mrs Longhill could hardly bear to talk to her , her mistress felt it her duty to ask certain questions .
3 Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children .
4 Right-wing members of the Labour government like Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams felt it their duty to show solidarity with the pickets .
5 Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ .
6 Artists and intellectuals , both prominent figures and less familiar faces , felt it their duty to partake in the ‘ salvation of the nation ’ .
7 ‘ No , they felt it their duty to struggle on , ’ said Daisy , half to herself
8 Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again .
9 As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class .
10 Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang 's career from the start at the expense of his own .
11 When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London .
12 Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live .
13 I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness .
14 All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more .
15 ‘ However , young or not , I felt it my duty to see you and explain . ’
16 Er but since this is a relatively new area of technology , we felt it our responsibility to report this .
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