Example sentences of "have felt for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 2 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 3 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 4 | Nameless Lives : Sir Robert Peel ( 1788-1850 ) , who became Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1812 after Spencer Perceval was assassinated and Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister for what must have felt for ever . |
| 5 | Charles 's reaction finally closed the door on any love Diana may have felt for him . |
| 6 | The fact that the US announced its continuing if not open-ended assistance for the French in Vietnam on the same day as the Schuman plan began Germany 's rehabilitation in Europe was , obviously , a coincidence in spite of any gratitude which the US might have felt for this imaginative and , at the same time , practical French gesture . |
| 7 | Such pity as she well may have felt for Ramsey in its distress , he has traduced and despoiled , and here we have no rights . |
| 8 | Killed whatever Guy might have felt for her ? |
| 9 | Her fault , obviously , to have felt for his hand . |
| 10 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 11 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 12 | Often , she had felt for him as they both stood in front of Mr Browning as the money order was made . |
| 13 | Oreste would die , she saw that now , for what was it she had felt for Ferdinando if not lust ? |
| 14 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 15 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 16 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 17 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 18 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 19 | What he had felt for Kee had left ‘ a large deep wound which is healed but is still sensitive . ’ |
| 20 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 21 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 22 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 23 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 24 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 25 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 26 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 27 | ‘ No , and it needs time and discipline as well as motivation , ’ Belinda murmured , the instinctive empathy she had felt for Faye growing as she heard more of the painter 's story . |
| 28 | The facts made the contempt he had felt for her , six years ago at any rate , even more understandable . |
| 29 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 30 | Guilty or innocent , it did not matter ; he wanted her back , and he knew at last that , whatever he had felt for Angela Deverill , it was not this . |