Example sentences of "felt for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then quietly I walked down the steps and felt for a seat on one of the wooden forms ; after being hissed at by several people I found one empty , next to an old woman . |
| 2 | As she held it in her hands , it felt for a moment huge and heavy ; light glimmered from it , and the sea sounded in her ears . |
| 3 | As she came uncertainly to him , Robert felt for a moment the deep pleasure and well-being of sun on his shoulders . |
| 4 | He picked up Doyle 's limp hand and felt for a pulse . |
| 5 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 6 | I felt for a pulse but I could n't find one . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 8 | She felt for a tissue to wipe tears that were falling uncontrollably , and , seeing her need , he took a large handkerchief from his pocket and , turning her face to his , he very gently wiped her eyes . |
| 9 | The tenderness he felt for the child was equal to , if different from , the tenderness he felt for his mother . |
| 10 | All the anger she felt for the wretch who had assaulted her was transferred to Dr Neil who had arrived to save her . |
| 11 | He felt for the monocle dangling against his shirt front and tumbled it between his fingers , over and over as though telling a Rosary . |
| 12 | O'Connor and Brown ( 1984 ) suggested that one explanation may be that Henderson did not differentiate between the actual support provided in terms of confiding and frequency of contact and the attachment felt for the person named . |
| 13 | That 's your — ’ he felt for the word ’ — facilities . ’ |
| 14 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 15 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 16 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 17 | Moved in close to the door , and felt for the handle . |
| 18 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 19 | Tongue out , as if licking the beer from his lips , Trent felt for the wind . |
| 20 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 21 | Well , I cycled up quite slowly behind him and then I stopped with my feet on the ground and felt for the gun . |
| 22 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 23 | He felt for the light switch . |
| 24 | She felt for the light switch and clicked but nothing happened . |
| 25 | McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s . |
| 26 | He felt for the receiver and held it gingerly to his ear . |
| 27 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 28 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 29 | He felt for the bedside table with his left hand , remembered why the right one was all bandaged up , and switched on the light . |
| 30 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |