Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] feeling [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it .
2 She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable .
3 In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back .
4 If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand .
5 They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum .
6 He said he 'd been feeling depressed .
7 He 'd been feeling good that day : finding the sweet-spot time after time , the ball coming off the racquet head with no sense of effort .
8 A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning .
9 He had been feeling depressed and lacking in energy .
10 He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him .
11 He had been feeling cold for some time .
12 He had been feeling cheerful , God help him !
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