Example sentences of "feel [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tension between the two absorbs a good deal of the aggression that is felt about a whole range of social experiences . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 4 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 5 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 6 | How , how would you have felt as a poor peasant |
| 7 | Unquestionably , the loss of his father was felt as a grievous blow for many years after the event . |
| 8 | Each song is felt as a miniature music-drama , a perfect summation in notes of the terrors of the heart , the loneliness of the mind as expressed by Rellstab , even more Heine . |
| 9 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 10 | The Chancellor often felt like a rare bird , he said , facing a barrage of flashbulbs every time he emerged from his Downing Street nest . |
| 11 | That suddenly felt like a terrible thing . |
| 12 | But yesterday 's rain-hit showdown must have felt like a recurring nightmare for Faldo , too . |
| 13 | She herself felt like a fair-minded vegetarian at a bullfight , filled with both alarm for the bull and reluctant admiration for the matador , who seems , on the face of it , to be at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 15 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 16 | Nigel 's felt like a damp facecloth . |
| 17 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 18 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 19 | The ulcer in both sexes has a hard floor , which may feel like a small button just under the skin surface , varying in size from the barely discernible to the size of a finger-nail . |
| 20 | It makes you feel like a second class citizen to be disabled . |
| 21 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 22 | It is a sad sight for not only is it a famous Belfast landmark but to anyone who has spent an enjoyable evening there taking in anything from a popular musical to a classic play it must feel like a personal loss . |
| 23 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 24 | It makes a man feel like a real man . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll feel like a new person in two ticks . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll feel like a blooming film star ! ’ |
| 27 | She would feel like a spoiled child insisting that she wanted to go home . |
| 28 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
| 29 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 30 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |