Example sentences of "[pers pn] have the [adj] feeling " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the strong feeling the place was empty . |
| 2 | I had the strong feeling of help having been given so I clasped my hands and said a prayer , half mentally , half vocally , of thanks to God . |
| 3 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 4 | But if these beings had left any fingerprints I had the strong feeling they would n't be the kind you get down at Scotland Yard . |
| 5 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 6 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 7 | I had the nasty feeling they 'd done this before . |
| 8 | I had the uneasy feeling it would not be so simple . |
| 9 | I had the sinking feeling of failure . |
| 10 | ‘ I had the strangest feeling you were running away from something , ’ she said , looking directly at Silas . |
| 11 | ‘ From day one at Tottenham I had the opposite feeling , even when I was in the team . ’ |
| 12 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 13 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 14 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 15 | There was another time I had the same feeling . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case I suggest we stick to it , because I have the strong feeling that if we start digging up what happened five years ago we will start arguing , and that wo n't help anybody . ’ |
| 17 | I have the uncomfortable feeling that homosexual relationships exclude the opposite sex . |
| 18 | I have the uneasy feeling he heard voices all day long , talking all kinds of blah to him . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's so , doctor , but you know I have the strange feeling that it 's still there , biding its time . |
| 20 | Why did she have the sudden feeling that she was no longer in control ? |
| 21 | She had the tremendous feeling that Ana was speaking almost against her will , as if the words were being torn from her . |
| 22 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 23 | As she ran up the garden , her legs felt soft and boneless under her ; she had the terrible feeling that they might collapse altogether if she did n't hurry and find somewhere private , somewhere nice and safe and dark . |
| 24 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 25 | She had the awful feeling she was expected to behave in some glittering , unusual way to live up to her father 's memory . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
| 27 | Only she had the awful feeling that was n't the end of it at all , and that was the really scary part of all this . |
| 28 | She had the decided feeling that he was on to her , and she had n't even started yet . |
| 29 | On her high perch , she had the familiar feeling of exhilaration and apprehension . |
| 30 | He turned back to what he was doing , his long fingers working quickly and expertly at the job , and she had the faintest feeling that she was being dismissed . |