Example sentences of "he feels " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim reads about their doings in his magazines of popular science , and letting Ferdinand into the secret of his interest , he feels he is revealing his ‘ true self ’ . |
| 2 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 3 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 4 | He has stayed on the contract/corporate side of the fence ever since because he feels that it suits his style and temperament . |
| 5 | Philippe Roy prefers to do without , because he feels that it interferes with the flavour of a fine oil . |
| 6 | He left town the next morning , for Montreal where he feels most at home . |
| 7 | He feels something ; is inspired by it ; his mind takes off ; his periods flow — and afterwards he has difficulty in recalling their point of origination , even their exact meaning ( like Browning , see below ) . |
| 8 | That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means . |
| 9 | This gesture becomes more strongly evident and unpredictable as more and more events crowd in until both hands are used to shut out thoughts of the suicide he feels is inevitable . |
| 10 | People will pay a premium price for a premium product , he feels . |
| 11 | But he feels let-down and disappointed that all his years of effort in building trade in the Harrow , a city-centre pub , count for nothing . |
| 12 | That ‘ strange ’ which would be a lazy gesture in another novelist is indeed strange to the reader , strange as the feline , supremely observed young man himself ; and yet he feels the very muscles and skin-surface of Raskolnikov 's smile — a prelude to the way in which the book 's entire action is simultaneously read about and lived through . |
| 13 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 14 | Sometimes we catch the novelist positively shaping and manipulating the narrator : ‘ The chronicler pretends for his part that he feels the sorrow of a Christian … |
| 15 | He feels that Keyser 's problems were hastened by an unwise acquisition . |
| 16 | If , further , he feels that the free market policies and values embraced by Mrs Thatcher have done much to create a divided nation , dominated by Pharisees , he should feel free to offer his opinion . |
| 17 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 18 | He feels no need to conceal his personal ambition . |
| 19 | He feels they do n't appreciate Patrick , who was not really likeable because he drank rather too much and insulted people and all sorts of things . |
| 20 | Faldo said at Wentworth yesterday that he made the decision because he feels he can not now finish at the top of the European order of merit by playing in Spain . |
| 21 | ‘ He was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 22 | The good composer expresses what he feels and makes what he is making , from an essentially musical motivation , by essentially musical means , with all the skill and experience he can command . |
| 23 | Pavel Mukhortov , the Russian reporter who claims to have had a close encounter with extra-terrestrials He ( Nelson Mandela ) was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 24 | No doubt he feels safer in their presence . |
| 25 | Admiring Durkheim 's stress on the need for community , Eliot wrote that , ‘ For the savage or the civilized man , a solely individual existence would be intolerable : he feels the need of recreating and sustaining his strength by periodic refuge in another consciousness which is supra-individual . |
| 26 | In his final chapter , he notes that the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce identified what he feels ‘ may perhaps be the most important influence of all in driving up the divorce rate , namely the idealization of the individual pursuit of self-gratification and personal pleasure at the expense of a sense of reciprocal obligations and duties towards helpless dependents , such as children , and , our society as a whole ’ ( pp 403–4 ) . |
| 27 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 28 | He is instructed to go to bed when he feels tired , to get up when he feels rested , and to eat meals when he estimates that it is breakfast , lunch , and dinner time . |
| 29 | He is instructed to go to bed when he feels tired , to get up when he feels rested , and to eat meals when he estimates that it is breakfast , lunch , and dinner time . |
| 30 | Good value today , he feels , are quality 1920s copies of Georgian originals . |