Example sentences of "[pron] feel for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel for the spider living in his strange world , this master craftsman who has been commissioned to beautify a small corner with his delicate work , and when the dew drops fall , for an instant , the world is made luminous and is transfigured . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel for the place , ’ he says , ‘ and they need someone here to look after it . ’ |
| 3 | Erm I feel for the quality of the show that they 're seeing , two pound fifty is is nothing . |
| 4 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 5 | I felt for the matches . |
| 6 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 7 | so , so lust is what you feel for the wrong one ? |
| 8 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 9 | All the anger she felt for the wretch who had assaulted her was transferred to Dr Neil who had arrived to save her . |
| 10 | She felt for the light switch and clicked but nothing happened . |
| 11 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 12 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
| 13 | Her feet felt like leaden weights , but she eventually managed to take a step , and then another , one hand held out in front of her to feel for the bed . |
| 14 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 15 | That 's your — ’ he felt for the word ’ — facilities . ’ |
| 16 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 17 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The tenderness he felt for the child was equal to , if different from , the tenderness he felt for his mother . |
| 20 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 21 | He felt for the bedside table with his left hand , remembered why the right one was all bandaged up , and switched on the light . |
| 22 | He felt for the light switch . |
| 23 | He felt for the monocle dangling against his shirt front and tumbled it between his fingers , over and over as though telling a Rosary . |
| 24 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 25 | He felt for the edges of the square door , found them and lifted it gently . |
| 26 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 27 | He felt for the receiver and held it gingerly to his ear . |
| 28 | He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’ |
| 29 | He felt for the words that should follow , the first step that was as hard as a death , or more truly , as hard as being born again . |
| 30 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |