Example sentences of "felt some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , all Select Committee members felt some frustration in trying to identify which procedures would allow offshore workers to apply for trade union recognition , and enforce the general wish for union recognition upon employers . |
| 2 | Lydia felt some sympathy with Betty for once . |
| 3 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 4 | He still kept a respectful distance from Rab , who felt some indignation , like a leper . |
| 5 | If Burun had originated the plot , it was possible that he felt some responsibility towards Sidacai . |
| 6 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 7 | ‘ Simply because I felt some responsibility for you in Bruges , ’ Luke replied evenly . |
| 8 | Hers was not a demanding character , and so long as she felt some evidence of a man 's care ( which living in Charles ' room would give her ) she would not need more . |
| 9 | He felt some fluid in his bones . |
| 10 | She felt some obligation to keep the conversation going ; it was impossible to walk round in silence the way she could have done with Hugh . |
| 11 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 12 | There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy . |
| 13 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 14 | For the first time since Henry 's death I felt some happiness . |
| 15 | Now and then Topaz felt some guilt . |
| 16 | And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . |
| 17 | And although the old woman 's premonition was an unhappy one and mention of Daniel caused her an immediate spear of pain , she nevertheless felt purged ; she always felt some elation after being in the company of the story-teller . |
| 18 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 19 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 20 | Coleridge even felt some confidence that his writing could sustain them both in their new life : Cottle , in a further act of generosity , had offered him a guinea and a half for every one hundred lines of poetry he produced , and faithfully honoured the bargain in April of the following year when he published Poems on Various Subjects , Coleridge 's first major collection . |
| 21 | Robert still felt some confusion about what Aziz and his friends might be expected to do around the time of the little boy 's Occultation . |
| 22 | Or felt some disaffection to the place where she was ? ’ |
| 23 | He felt some shame in digging up long-dead ghosts to torment Vologsky , and a sense of moral wrong in telling him such a bundle of blasphemous untruths . |
| 24 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 25 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 26 | The pope himself was beginning to waver , and there are signs that he felt some embarrassment at abandoning the position of his predecessor and leaving Anselm isolated . |
| 27 | As we shook hands I felt some embarrassment ; he had been sacked from his post in the English Literature and Language Department of the University of East Anglia the previous year . |
| 28 | If Warner Bros felt some duty to argue for justice in their films there were people in other studios who thought that the vogue for realistic films could be used to condemn radicalism and militancy . |