Example sentences of "feel [prep] [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.

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1 He was motionless , the only movement a nerve jerking in his tense jaw as she reached her hands up to slip the shoe-string straps from her shoulders , then felt behind her back for the zip .
2 She felt in her pocket for the key .
3 He put the chicken in a roasting bag and felt in his pocket for the vial of thallium .
4 He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier .
5 He felt in his pocket for the key it was not there !
6 She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key .
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