Example sentences of "[pron] it feel [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So , I 'm thinking oh it 's hard , when I actually feel it it feels thicker at the end and it does feel better but when I 've washed it , I shall feel all hairy now all afternoon . |
| 4 | The , I mean it 's only anecdotal , but it feels to me as though the the increase they experienced in June has continued into er July , I know that 's not what we 're looking at but it it feels that way , erm |
| 5 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 9 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 13 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 14 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 17 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 18 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
| 19 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 20 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
| 21 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 22 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |
| 23 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 24 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 25 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 26 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 27 | Ignore what it feels like , concentrate on the journey . |
| 28 | He remembers what it feels like to experience intense hunger and profound thirst , irrational loathing and sublime contentment . |
| 29 | He remembers vividly ( not necessarily articulately ) what it feels like to be isolated , to be partnered , to be set adrift , to be reclaimed . |
| 30 | It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too . |