Example sentences of "feel [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 2 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 3 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 4 | The influence of agribusiness is felt throughout the Third world , though North American firms have found a major outlet in Latin America . |
| 5 | It makes you feel like a second class citizen to be disabled . |
| 6 | Is you 've got ta be like that show in the West End where it 's gon na feel like the first time . |
| 7 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 8 | The present and future impact of unemployment on the well-being of old people has yet to be assessed and indeed may be most strongly felt in the next decade or two . |
| 9 | In some subjects these new methods have led to so radical a change in the content of the syllabus that the effects will necessarily be felt in the sixth form and in all further and higher education . |
| 10 | Only the terror of being caught by the creature — I could all too clearly imagine myself being hurled from the roof — drove me to climb over into space and feel for the first rung of the ladder . |
| 11 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 12 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 13 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 14 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 15 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 16 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 17 | He swung one foot out , to the next joist , then put out one hand and felt for the next rafter ; he transferred his weight carefully . |
| 18 | Hearing British voices talking about anything from politics to music , even listening to old comedy shows , felt like the first step home . |
| 19 | Giving him a mutinous look , she defended for what felt like the fortieth time , ‘ I did n't know about the baby ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Ask Clive , ’ Polly repeated for what felt like the hundredth time . |
| 21 | When Carson reached the stairs at the end of the hall he kept on going , feeling for the first riser with his heel and wincing when the step creaked under his weight . |
| 22 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 23 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |