Example sentences of "he feel [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
| 2 | And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar . |
| 3 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 4 | The same anger he feels towards the morning greetings from his colleagues at the library . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend tell the House what he feels about the accuracy of the continued Russian accounting for nuclear warheads ? |
| 6 | He feels like the captain of a sleeping ship , alone at the helm , steering his oblivious crew through dangerous seas . |
| 7 | He feels in the drawer of his bedside table and brings out the tickets . |
| 8 | His armour of cynicism was shown up as useless ; all he could feel was how desperately he had wanted the job and how bitter he felt at the injustice that had taken it away from him . |
| 9 | Then he started to cough , forced himself to control the tickle he felt at the back of his throat . |
| 10 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 11 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 12 | Mortimer reholstered his gun , satisfied at a job well done , and striving to contain the excitement he felt at the combat . |
| 13 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 14 | He begins with the mind as ‘ white paper ’ ( following Locke ) , describes ‘ external sensible objects ’ , then records — as , for example , in the ‘ sense of unknown modes of being ’ after the boat-stealing incident — what he felt at the time , and then adds a later ‘ reflection ’ or meditation upon the event from the point of view of the author writing in 1798–1805 . |
| 15 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 16 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 17 | To get ousted when he felt on the threshold of something great is a crying shame . ’ |
| 18 | He felt for the monocle dangling against his shirt front and tumbled it between his fingers , over and over as though telling a Rosary . |
| 19 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 20 | The tenderness he felt for the child was equal to , if different from , the tenderness he felt for his mother . |
| 21 | That 's your — ’ he felt for the word ’ — facilities . ’ |
| 22 | He felt for the receiver and held it gingerly to his ear . |
| 23 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 24 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 25 | He felt for the light switch . |
| 26 | He felt for the bedside table with his left hand , remembered why the right one was all bandaged up , and switched on the light . |
| 27 | I asked Dr Ian Rolfe , now at Chambers Street Museum , how he felt about the selling of fossils . |
| 28 | When asked by a reporter how he felt about the prospect , he admitted , ‘ I 'm shitting myself . ’ |
| 29 | He did n't know what , just anything that would settle the unease he felt about the death . |
| 30 | He was holding the bucking steering wheel with his artificial hand while he felt under the dashboard for his cigarettes . |