Example sentences of "feels [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ The one who is contained feels himself living entirely within the confines of his marriage ; outside the marriage there exist no essential obligations and no binding interests . ’ |
| 3 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 4 | On the one hand medicine is seen as a body of scientific knowledge and as a set of techniques , for which the GP feels himself to be relatively poorly equipped . |
| 5 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 6 | He feels himself to be privileged . |
| 7 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 8 | I think too , ’ said the Archdeacon with untoward frankness , ‘ Marr feels himself to be entitled to more success in the Church than he 's actually achieved . |
| 9 | ‘ As you know , ’ he said uncertainly , ‘ the not-fully-late Lord of the Wyrmberg , Greicha the First , has stipulated that there will be no succession until one of his children feels himself — or as . |
| 10 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 11 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 12 | Coleridge in his state of enhanced perception feels himself part of nature . |
| 13 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 14 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 15 | No wonder that the North of England feels itself still left in the dark . |
| 16 | Essentially this is the behaviour of a cat that feels itself severely threatened and strikes out to protect itself . |
| 17 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 18 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 19 | Small wonder that industry feels itself to suffer unfairly in the competition for talent . |
| 20 | Recognizing the distinct nature of Quebec 's French-speaking culture , it asserted that " the first priority is to ensure that Quebec feels itself a full and willing partner in the constitutional family once again " . |
| 21 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 22 | On the other hand , and it is extremely complex and it indeed , it probably erm amounts to the fact that each wom woman has to consider how she feels herself |