Example sentences of "[conj] he felt the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his speech at the opening Tom Motherwell , director of Wood Group Gas Turbines , said that he felt the expansion was an important move for the Company . |
| 2 | He fancied too that he felt the cold less than they did . |
| 3 | Pink thought that he felt the admiration of his audience , and they wanted more . |
| 4 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 5 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 6 | The principle of satyāgraha existed before the term was coined , and it was because Gandhi was dissatisfied with the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ that he felt the need for a more suitable and more accurate term to designate and describe the principle he was propounding . |
| 7 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 8 | Sister Cooney opened the French windows and he felt the air sweet on his face . |
| 9 | But the weather was mild and encouraging , and he felt the pull of the North , and the need for high ground . |
| 10 | A shell scored a direct hit on a petrol tank , and he felt the wave of heat from fifty yards off . |
| 11 | The air stung his face and he felt the ground 's iciness creep into his feet through the soles of Miles ' relegated gum-boots . |
| 12 | She murmured something to him , some affirmation of love , and he felt the vibration of her voice strike through him . |
| 13 | A door banged and he felt the vibration of footsteps and smelt cigarette smoke . |
| 14 | Gabriel could see his own shadow , the shadow of his peacock wings , spreading out over them , and he felt the heat of the sun beat on his back . |
| 15 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 16 | He was deadly pale , and he felt the room spinning round him . |
| 17 | They went through him and out the other side , and he felt the frost wither his insides , like an early runner bean . |
| 18 | Tavett crouched over his desk until he felt the swish of air as the woman passed by , purple and pink cotton skirts flapping . |
| 19 | Without taking his eyes off the stacks of machinery which shielded the glimmer from direct sight , Craig walked quickly backwards until he felt the entrance hatch to the Power Bay thump into his shoulder . |
| 20 | After that , he ignored the hand and massaged Bobby 's arm until he felt the sensation of burning coals . |
| 21 | His companion , swathed in a dark tawny robe as if he felt the cold , was a different kettle of fish : jet black hair framed a white face . |
| 22 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 23 | Fearon , his swarthy face as white as a ghost beneath the tan , removed his hard hat slowly , the last to do so , and with an angry look at Green as if he felt the financier had somehow insulted rather than honoured the lifeless form sprawled on the flagstones . |
| 24 | Asked if he felt the cult leader , David Koresh , was manipulating agents , Mr Ricks replied : ‘ As far as being jerked around , we are not going to be jerked around . ’ |
| 25 | He had other tasks he could profitably have got on with , but he felt the need to stay . |
| 26 | Nothing could wash away the beastliness of that house or the horror of the sight of Phyllis Henley 's body , but he felt the need to try . |
| 27 | He could n't see the torch being flashed underneath and through the windows , but he felt the car sway as one of the coppers tugged at the driver s handle and the boot . |
| 28 | A SCHOOLBOY computer hacker broke into British Telecom 's networks because he felt the phone giant was ‘ damn stupid ’ and ‘ greedy ’ , a court heard today . |
| 29 | Captain Robin Woodall said in Boston yesterday he overruled a local pilot because he felt the vessel was too close to shoals . |
| 30 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |