Example sentences of "could feel [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole Meadows was charming and welcoming , and within five minutes of their arrival Laura could feel many of the day 's traumas slipping off her tired shoulders . |
| 2 | Like a physical presence , she could feel that between them . |
| 3 | The wheel suddenly pushed into my left palm and I could feel all the thudding pressure of the sea and the wind concentrated into that one polished spoke . |
| 4 | In the Ma'badong , we were told , they could feel all the past and future generations of their tribe resonating through them as one — they could touch their Whole People , outside time , in the here and now . |
| 5 | As an actor , Charles could feel all the elements in the voice and begin to feel something of the man . |
| 6 | And above all he could feel all his senses heightened by the danger they were in . |
| 7 | He stirred the dregs of his coffee with a brooding intensity she could feel all through her . |
| 8 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 9 | Interestingly , it was not only daughters who could feel such a binding duty . |
| 10 | I could feel such hatred . |
| 11 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 12 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |
| 13 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 14 | You just walked back to your position trying to look unconcerned and got your clap from the crowd : I could feel this smile on my face , feel it spreading out to a grin . |
| 15 | I could feel this conversation going all the wrong way . |
| 16 | I never imagined that I could feel this way about anyone , but I do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I never thought I could feel this way about any woman . |
| 18 | If men could feel some compassion for their fellow sinners , what were they to think of an all-merciful Father , who conceded to his children no ultimate hope of forgiveness ? |
| 19 | There seemed to Sycorax a great need to placate the gods ; within the winding sheet of her bodily agony , she could feel another grief , that she had neglected them , had scorned the gifts they had lavished on her , taken them as they came instead of with gratitude due . |
| 20 | And then the three straight jabs in the mouth — Mike could feel several loose front teeth , one of which seemed embedded in his swollen upper lip . |