Example sentences of "have a feeling " in BNC.

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1 He has a feeling that his womenfolk are up to something .
2 This shows that he is not really aware of the shape relationship at all , but just remembers or ‘ has a feeling ’ that it ought to go there .
3 Except he does n't hear those words precisely , he just has a feeling — the emotional impact of an unsteady self-image ; unsettled at a formative stage by ridicule and embarrassment .
4 Well Alan sort of has a feeling that he does n't want that to happen and I want to fi , I , what I do n't like , I I mean I go , personally I go with Andrew 's feeling but I do n't want , so I do n't want to exclude that again
5 Each snapshot has a feeling that goes with it : mostly sadness , sometimes fear , once or twice happiness .
6 Aberdeen has a feeling of true foreign-ness , a different flavour — ; Scottish , undoubtedly , and therefore brisk and organised , but not without a feel of Norse and beyond .
7 Pakenham 's work has a feeling of transience about it , things are not firmly rooted , the people and the places all tumble into one another like great conjuring act with too many balls .
8 To sum up , bitonality and polytonality allow us to produce music which has a feeling of modernity , even though each voice may be simple and diatonic .
9 Fat Vince has a feeling for me also , I reckon .
10 Channel 4 , which has a feeling for grouping progs together into ‘ themes ’ , identified St Valentine 's Day ( sorry , weekend ) as a possible banker .
11 I 'd had a feeling I 'd seen it before , but I 'd no idea they were that good friends !
12 I 've always had a feeling that United 's goal crisis was not the fault of Mark Hughes or Brian McClair but of problems around them — not least the inability of the midfield to score .
13 You have n't had an affair with a man — that 's understood at your age — but have you had a feeling for a man ? ’
14 I , I have occasionally th just of sort of had a feeling I think I 'll do a hard boot this time .
15 Thus her thematic selections will always have a feeling quality .
16 Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style .
17 These developments hold great promise for severely disabled people who , although dependent on a machine , can have a feeling of relative independence ; their range of control in communicating and getting an appropriate response is increased and they are less dependent on people to carry out a number of everyday living activities .
18 Your letter should have a feeling of ‘ action required today ’ .
19 ‘ I do n't have a feeling that after putting so much energy and a big piece of my life into the Maryinsky I could leave .
20 The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’
21 Because teachers often can not answer the question of why they teach as they do and because they refer to statements such as that they just know what to do or have a feeling or sense about what to do , it has been suggested that what guides teachers in making sense of their work and what commits them to action is a mixture of " personal knowledge , tacit knowledge , routine knowledge … when conscious thought is not permitted the time to percolate and inform practice " ( Simons and Elliott 1989 ) .
22 Do you have a feeling , for example , that you are being watched ? ’
23 The accompaniment , like the item , must have a feeling of wholeness , with smooth pleasing transitions and absolute security of rhythm .
24 Do you have a feeling that poetry is taken more seriously these days than it was , perhaps , erm twenty or thirty years ago ?
25 Did you have a feeling that you were alone ?
26 He ought to have a feeling of reverence for the beautiful things his great-uncle had entrusted to him .
27 Yes , take her — I 'll check with Hawick 's office that it 's all right if you come mob-handed , but I 've a feeling in my water about this one .
28 I 've a feeling one of the lads from Portsmouth or Sunderland could end up a national hero .
29 ‘ I 've a feeling it 's inside left , ’ said his caddie Phil Morbey as Woosnam , sleep still in his eyes , emerged with the dawn patrol for that four-footer on the 14th .
30 ‘ I 've a feeling I 've seen you recently . ’
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