Example sentences of "felt [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Kāli stood outside and shouted , ‘ Hiu āgo ! ’ and , tilting her head back , mouth open wide , watched the flakes fall about her and felt them melt like icy duck-down on the warmth of her outstretched tongue .
2 She felt them lift her and take her over to the low stone wall beside the glimmering field of water-chestnuts .
3 He felt them shudder ; they were in the tunnel and the thunder of the oncoming express train was rattling the rails .
4 She felt them go round her , strong and decided against her dress , beneath her coat , and then he put his mouth on hers and began to kiss her , and for a moment she felt that she was flying , and the next minute she was clawing herself free with the superhuman strength of panic and stumbling for the door .
5 On the verge of passing out , she felt them connect her bluetower to the memorizer and Jezrael drowned in someone else 's memories , the battle-plans and layouts bulling their way in to trample her personality beneath them .
6 Then he was clinging to them , even as he felt them tear loose from the rock .
7 And both men put their arms round the children , and felt them flinch from the touch of strangers .
8 He felt them tauten against his palms and suddenly she slid her body over his right knee so that she was lying against him , between his legs .
9 She felt them tremble with expectation , parting , a little out of control .
10 So you never felt I mean presumably you never felt that yourself and therefore and also perhaps if you 've never come across Fair enough .
11 He played a lot of great shots but I felt I beat myself .
12 And it was well I I felt I need I 'll see tomorrow but
13 Actually , she influenced every decision I ever made but I always felt she put a barrier between us .
14 So you 're saying you 're the in terms of the media and how it 's erm presented to the outside world , I mean what do you what do you f that You 've said this now you felt you feel it 's unfair .
15 I heard you cry out , I felt you tremble with need … ’
16 we both felt you need to highlight erm can I ask you which of the areas you felt particular interest in ?
17 No , I think maybe if the girls had been in they might have been a bit shier and felt you know , oh we have to act you know , the lads .
18 I think he was a bit nervous really he thought , Oh my gosh you know that these are one of the big pickets that happened erm what are the women going to plan next you know and he felt you know Tom 's you know felt a bit sort of out of control of it really I think he was very impressed with er .
19 So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that .
20 No we 've had er because this was erm a , a , a of erm concern here that we felt you know what 's gon na happen after the twelve months and I 'm pretty sure we had a circular round that said we would get two hundred pounds a week .
21 The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity .
22 The British chapter was founded three years ago , and has made its presence felt in various ways , although they emphasise that ‘ We 're terribly shy and retiring — we 'd hate to think anyone felt we like drawing attention to ourselves . ’
23 He felt her slim shoulder move under the thick fabric of the tartan shirt , " as much as I know anything at the moment , that 's what I think I 'll be doing .
24 Instantly he felt her change of mood .
25 She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time .
26 Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement .
27 ‘ Here 's to thee , shipmate ! ’ she said in a mock bass voice , giggled … and felt her skin shrivel .
28 He would try not to hurt her , but the minute she touched him , the minute he felt her skin against his body …
29 She felt her skin burn , it was intolerable to have to listen to this .
30 Though his eyes were narrowed against the sun , there was no mistaking the glitter in them , and Polly felt her skin tingle as she coloured .
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