Example sentences of "help feel " in BNC.

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1 I could n't help feeling pleased though I was ashamed of myself …
2 It is not thus , one can not help feeling , that the serious artist addresses a fellow practitioner .
3 The Labour Party 's lead in the polls and the doubts which the Conservatives themselves can not help feeling about the state of the economy , both made the audience in the Winter Gardens anxious to demonstrate unity by giving standing ovations to the architects of the Government 's economic policy .
4 As we moved along I could n't help feeling apprehensive as I looked for newly disturbed ground that could contain a box mine , or glancing at the trees and hedges for signs of booby-traps .
5 Noël Coward 's Cavalcade , for example , though Jack could see its merit , struck him as fundamentally cheap , ‘ a mere brutal assault on one 's emotions , using material which one ca n't help feeling intensely .
6 Can not help feeling Truffaut 's real talent lies in desserts : the conjuring up of trifles , and that what I want from cinema screen is more like roast beef .
7 I could n't help feeling proud .
8 He was very sorry , but at the same time he could not help feeling excited by the prospect of owning a new jacket .
9 ‘ But I ca n't help feeling the situation has … intensified somewhat since last night . ’
10 Annunciata , coming in singing with coffee , was reprimanded for causing a headache to begin on that instant and Wilson could not help feeling triumphant .
11 But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta .
12 CAN NOT help feeling a certain degree of admiration for the Evangelical Christians who are , invariably , to be found lurking behind every accusation of satanic child abuse .
13 Last night we celebrated the defeat of Italy — our brigadier ordered a rum ration to all ranks in honour of the occasion — yet I ca n't help feeling just a bit sorry for the Italians , and have never found it in my heart to dislike them as I do the Germans .
14 It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’
15 I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf .
16 Deep down , however , and reading his own comments about always having to fight for employment and never being superbly successful , one ca n't help feeling he actually yearned for the stability that steady and better paid work would bring .
17 I ca n't help feeling you regard them as something awfully deep , like sort of magical formulae .
18 But I ca n't help feeling that there must be more to it than that .
19 There was no one to discuss this strange development with and , as she saddled and bridled the eager Midnight for their ride , Nutty could not help feeling astonished by Nails 's request .
20 The detailed slower numbers work well , but I ca n't help feeling that the group would love to break into a stomping rocker more often .
21 It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely .
22 Ca n't help feeling the Grand Army is n't really the ideal audience . ’
23 Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad .
24 One ca n't help feeling there may be a bit of tongue in cheek here !
25 ‘ Really , it 's been a terrible season , rain rain rain , you ca n't help feeling sorry for the trades people , they have to live all winter on what they get from tourists . ’
26 But one can not help feeling that the description by the author of the Gesta Francorum , himself a knight , of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 , is a more characteristic specimen of the ‘ religion ’ of twelfth-century knights .
27 Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved .
28 In that context we should therefore be grateful that our own dear CAA has delegated the regulation of homebuilding in the UK to the Popular Flying Association ; but I still ca n't help feeling that the list of types approved by the PFA as reproduced in this book is ultraconservative .
29 I ca n't help feeling that some women would prefer a doll than a child , something they can put back in the box when they 're tired of it .
30 But I ca n't help feeling that the ruling for the miners and against the Government could have gone further .
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