Example sentences of "[to-vb] she feel [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As Sheila Kitzinger , the birth expert , wrote : ‘ The most undermining thing you can do to a woman in labour is to encourage her to feel sorry for herself . ’
2 With six children to feed she felt unable to challenge him about his mistress lest he walked out on her for good .
3 Make sure you give her as much reassurance as you can to help her feel secure .
4 It had no effect whatsoever , except to leave her feeling battered and thoroughly bad-tempered .
5 After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better .
6 I 'm sort of kneeling there , so I put my hand on Marie 's back to make her feel better , but she rolls away from me .
7 I do my best to make her feel better , but still she cries and that .
8 He was only trying to make her feel better .
9 She performed a few minor alterations on her body to make her feel better .
10 She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did .
11 There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her .
12 I used to try and not say er , you know , to make her feel uncomfortable and that sort of thing , but I did use to draw the line when they used to be eleven and half past eleven saying goodnight and I had to get up at half past , six o'clock , seven o'clock
13 Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied .
14 He said it deliberately to make her feel awkward .
15 Immediately after it had happened just the sight of any man , even kind Uncle Orrin , had been enough to make her feel faint , and nauseous .
16 There appeared no reason to suspect suicidal intent ; rather , the therapist understood the overdose as being intended to evoke sympathy from Ann , to make her feel guilty about leaving home and to put pressure on her to return .
17 In time , perhaps , she would make efforts to conceal her resentment about his ability to make her feel guilty , and he would make efforts to conceal his anguish about the loss of her .
18 She was afraid that Clare would try to make her feel guilty that evening .
19 This was to pay Emma out , to make her feel guilty and never again to disobey him .
20 Robyn shot back , furious with herself for giving him the opportunity to make her feel foolish and inferior all over again .
21 How else could he have the power to make her feel this way — angry and hurt and yearning ?
22 She could hardly hide behind the four walls of her father 's house for the rest of her life , but the mere thought of re-entering any sort of social scene was enough to make her feel ill .
23 They achieved nothing , except to make her feel ill .
24 I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe .
25 It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first , and yet here she was , waiting for Alain Lemarchand , butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick .
26 If she did not do what they wanted then they managed to make her feel wrong or stupid .
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