Example sentences of "feel [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up . |
| 2 | A baby would get born and an upstairs window be lit at night : an old man would die and the hearse arrive , and a gap be felt for a while , but the very pressure of ordinariness , or whatever it was , soon healed it up . |
| 3 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 4 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 5 | It will allow the sense of frustration many of us have felt for a number of years to be replaced by a new sense of purpose . |
| 6 | Yet the demand ‘ for every syllable a note ’ was felt as a constraint and only when Byrd for some reason was able to resist it , in his Great Service , does he rise to the heights of the four- and five-part Masses evidently intended for some great Catholic household , and the finest of his motets , in which he reveals his mastery of freely imitative polyphony . |
| 7 | Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight , |
| 8 | At the same time the young scholar 's concern with large aesthetic-cultural questions and his deep interest in Schopenhauer were felt as a stimulus by Wagner himself . |
| 9 | The poem takes its title from a ledge of rock off Cape Ann which acted as a seamark when Eliot , as a boy , used to sail out of Gloucester Harbour , and its first lines evoke the presence of the Mississippi which he had felt as a child in St Louis . |
| 10 | Its use is based on the reflexology principle — that there are specific pressure points on the palms and fingers that relate to different organs in the body : any blockage will be felt as a twinge of discomfort in the hand and can be cleared by applying a little more pressure to the roller at that point . |
| 11 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 12 | And in the most final sense of all , to be arrested while fighting opposing supporters may be felt as a way of conveying to the management by means of some psychic process the nature of the ‘ really genuine supporter ’ , and the character of his identification . |
| 13 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 14 | The fact that more than five hundred deaf and dumb people , old and no longer able to work , were inmates of workhouses was keenly felt as a blot and the responsibility of the deaf community . |
| 15 | Each driving the other towards the kind of frustration which you can only feel for a family member . |
| 16 | If I did n't move someone would come and feel for a pulse and , finding one , finish me off . |
| 17 | How does it make you feel as a person human consequence . |
| 18 | What did he feel as a man ? |
| 19 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 20 | And how do you feel as a consequence ? |
| 21 | Thus Hume does not sharply distinguish between interpreting moral judgements as expressing one 's own feelings , stating one 's own feelings , and suggesting how men in general would feel about a situation if they knew enough . |
| 22 | The suspicion that fitzAlan might have cold-bloodedly used kindness , then seduction , for his own ends almost felt like a betrayal . |
| 23 | ‘ Felt like a crusader . |
| 24 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 25 | Since the block had been removed the day before , and Ewan 's program had started to run , she had felt like a cat on heat . |
| 26 | She 'd felt like a princess . |
| 27 | Felt like a bit of challenge there . |
| 28 | The careful procession into the Hall had felt like a kind of funeral . |
| 29 | Lee had felt like a sailing-boat between two galleons . |
| 30 | The fact was he felt like a child again , powerless against forces he could not understand — let alone control . |