Example sentences of "feel as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ? |
| 2 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 3 | His head throbbed mightily from the blows he 'd received , and the continuous agony of his burned hand made him feel as if the limb was swelling to gigantic proportions . |
| 4 | But not one of them had made her feel as if a candle had been set to kindling within her . |
| 5 | I feel as if a bit of me had been chopped off . |
| 6 | You feel as if a group like the Spinners really mean it when they speak of tenderness and affection . |
| 7 | I feel as if the woman I loved and looked up to never existed . ’ |
| 8 | Raasay has an atmosphere of independence : had the Macleods ever declared a Republic of Raasay , the place feels as if the idea might have taken hold . |
| 9 | ‘ And just look at those flowers — it feels as if the winter 's really over at last . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , it feels as if the skeg has dropped off . |
| 11 | Sometimes , the model or theory being examined leads into a blind alley or the methodology turns out to be faulty , and the researcher feels as if the effort involved was worthless . |
| 12 | As we pass through them , it feels as if the boat will drown . |
| 13 | Ruth felt as if a blow had been delivered to her ribs with a mallet . |
| 14 | Virginia felt as if a steel door had slammed shut inside her . |
| 15 | When Virginia Woolf first read Lawrence , she said she felt as if a curtain had been thrown back , so she could see , clearly , for the first time , the intensity of family relationships . |
| 16 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 17 | I felt as if every muscle had been ripped out . |
| 18 | I loved her , and when she died I felt as if every light in the world had dimmed . ’ |
| 19 | IT FELT as if an earthquake had just hit the City . |
| 20 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 21 | He felt as if the floor were shifting under his feet , giddy as he tried to take in what was happening . |
| 22 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 23 | I felt as if the top of my head was lifting off . |
| 24 | Sabine , coaxed into taking a sip from Rohan 's glass , felt as if the top of her head had exploded , and laughingly refused any more . |
| 25 | Eileen , who 'd been beaten into writing legibly by the nuns , felt as if the writer did n't care whether her letters were decipherable or not . |
| 26 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 27 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 28 | He kissed you and it felt as if time had stood still and when he stopped you felt as if the bottom had dropped out of your world . |
| 29 | Robyn pressed her hand to her mouth , read his words two — three times , staring down at Mark 's writing to where that name was etched indelibly in black ink , and felt as if the anguish had paralysed every part of her . |
| 30 | She felt as if the breath had been suddenly knocked out of her . |