Example sentences of "feeling [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worry he had been feeling about Janine was replaced by elation . |
| 2 | It seems , then , that the list of linguistic features to be counted is indefinitely large , if we want a quantitative description of a text to have a fine enough mesh to catch the linguistic details which contribute to readers " feeling for differences of style . |
| 3 | Get Ready ! is the ideal preparation for English at primary level , giving pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning . |
| 4 | I went over and ran my fingers over the length of the flexor tendons , feeling for signs of thickening . |
| 5 | Du Camp used to say that Gustave did not have an ounce of feeling for poetry in him . |
| 6 | Someone , smiling , said ‘ Poor wee bastard , ’ and that seemed to be the extent of feeling for Alec . |
| 7 | But the look of dislike , which Alice was afraid might be what Roberta did feel for her , was replaced with Roberta 's more amiable look , and she sat up , feeling for cigarettes . |
| 8 | The , by contrast , normally sober reports of the District Leader of Augsburg City added that belief and trust in the Führer had reached an unprecedented level , and that ‘ if an increase in feeling for Adolf Hitler was still possible , it had become reality with the day of the return to Berlin ’ from the western Front . |
| 9 | feeling for fags |
| 10 | The most common defence against feeling for hospital doctors is to see the symptom but not the patient . |
| 11 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 12 | Every therapist of emotional pain , no matter their particular style , sees the discharge of feeling through tears as a positive and healing experience . |
| 13 | Rather , there has been feeling of surprise at just how much energy the ideologists of the Soviet regime expended in the fight against what was then known as ‘ anti-Soviet ’ art . |
| 14 | Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit . |
| 15 | Minutes passed , feeling like hours . |
| 16 | They were really feeling like prisoners and in need of consolation . |
| 17 | While he went away to phone Bucharest the three stood around the car , feeling like criminals awaiting sentence . |
| 18 | She stood up , instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly , and set off after the machine . |
| 19 | Assaults left girl ‘ feeling like tramp ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I understand , my lady , ’ Joan said again , her heart feeling like lead . |
| 21 | Why not start Saturday and in next to no time you 'll be looking and feeling like Adonis or Artemis . |
| 22 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 23 | Olazabal , despite feeling like death warmed up , defeated Hoch , the runner-up in the Masters , 4 and 2 in a match in which the Spaniard was never headed . |
| 24 | Bryan Beeson , a defeated opponent at the national championships , said : ‘ I was feeling like death and he actually seemed to be enjoying the rallies . |
| 25 | But be warned — there is no actual cure for feeling like death warmed up . |
| 26 | Is it possible to say ‘ It was a beautiful morning at the end of November ’ without feeling like Snoopy ? |
| 27 | Ronni struggled from her stupor and stepped back into the hallway , her legs feeling like bales of straw beneath her . |
| 28 | He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein . |
| 29 | This was condemned in western countries , but feeling against jews was common everywhere : Freud 's father had his hat knocked off by a Gentile who shouted at him ‘ Jew , get off the pavement ’ , and Jewish shops were smashed by miners in Tredegar in 1911 . |
| 30 | I may have poured myself into my books , my home , my garden and my animals , but the loving feeling I have for them is not the same as a loving relationship , which goes beyond feeling into action and commitment . |