Example sentences of "to feel [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needs to feel worth something to other people and perhaps even feel dominant , ( though protecting Lennie is not just an ego trip ) . |
| 2 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 3 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 4 | it was for men that he felt the hot , flushing , roused attraction which a man is supposed to feel for the other sex … the male physique had a fascination for him , and for the female physique he felt only a fondness … |
| 5 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 6 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 7 | He was an ugly mess , and he was still alive , but Anne could find no emotion to feel for him . |
| 8 | When she is egocentric , you can point out the injustices , cruelties and thoughtlessness which arise from her limited capacity to feel for others . |
| 9 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 10 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 11 | Rice 's talent is in making these undead creatures so lifelike , so human , that the reader begins to feel for them . |
| 12 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 13 | ‘ She could be such a positive force for the organisations she purports to feel for , such as CARE , a charity for abused children . ’ |
| 14 | He came to a stop to feel for the kerb . |
| 15 | Electric switches of the tumbler type are in a row along the bottom of the captain 's panel and the battery master is banished to an out-of-sight position low down on the pedestal where you have to feel for it . |
| 16 | Being hurried down stairs , trying to feel for the edge of the steps , unable to see , was very unnerving . |
| 17 | He had tried to beat his son into giving him the respect he was unable to feel for himself . |
| 18 | By itself such music would be shattering with its evocation of primordial universality , but the Apolline particularity of the tragic myth makes the evocation bearable by giving us sublime individuals to feel for and to satisfy our sense of beauty . |
| 19 | She had thought , wrongly , that she could allow the love which she had begun to feel for Dr Neil to express itself , only for her deepest instincts to take over when in beginning to make love to her he had unwittingly reminded her so strongly of what … he had done to her . |
| 20 | Her feet felt like leaden weights , but she eventually managed to take a step , and then another , one hand held out in front of her to feel for the bed . |
| 21 | To feel for a likely maximum price and possible revisions to their offer . |
| 22 | The hilarious final rush of actions dominates the tale , and may provide a form of comic catharsis by which not only are potentially grave moral images and considerations emptied of their solemnity , but also the sympathy that it is difficult at times not to feel for the poor dupe , John , faithfully and helplessly in love with his wife , is overwhelmed by the sheer absurdity of this all-embracing climax . |
| 23 | ‘ This is what makes you so special , Fran , this ability to feel for others . ’ |
| 24 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 25 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 26 | I remember clearly how I used to feel as a child in chapel on Sundays . |
| 27 | ‘ Because each shaft is slightly thinner , hair starts to feel as if it has less body and volume , ’ says trichologist Philip Kingsley . |
| 28 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 29 | Bert returned , unfulfilled , and with a gaunt bitter look to him that Alice continued to feel as an improvement Bert asked where Jasper was ; Alice , as usual covering up , said that Jasper had decided to visit a brother . |
| 30 | Some years earlier , John Wood tries ‘ however quaint the thought may appear … to feel as the cottager himself ; and for that end to visit him ; to enquire after the conveniences he wanted , and into the inconveniences he laboured under ’ . |