Example sentences of "feel it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From early days English Teetotallers had felt it their duty to correct their American brethren when they fell short , a trait which has become an intricate part of general English attitudes towards America . |
| 2 | It was now four months since the twin , Judd , had been killed and , so Harry had explained , Mr Harvey had felt it his duty to find out whether , now his son was dead , the family title would die with him or , as he now seemed to think , it could be passed through the distaff side to his daughter . |
| 3 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 4 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been getting on very well here and I 've had glowing reports from Mrs Martin about your work , but if you feel it your duty to go home I understand . |
| 6 | I feel it my duty to disclaim any such intention . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish … that is , I feel it my duty … no , no , my desire and my duty to join their Society , but Miss Jarman wo n't countenance it . ’ |
| 8 | Dickens is a rich source of examples : [ 16 ] Mlud , no — variety of points — feel it my duty tsubmit ludship . |
| 9 | On the one hand , as a good Irish Catholic girl married to a man she loved and who could afford to support her , she felt it her duty as well as her wish to have a child . |
| 10 | Though it was clear that Mrs Longhill could hardly bear to talk to her , her mistress felt it her duty to ask certain questions . |
| 11 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 12 | Right-wing members of the Labour government like Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams felt it their duty to show solidarity with the pickets . |
| 13 | Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ . |
| 14 | Artists and intellectuals , both prominent figures and less familiar faces , felt it their duty to partake in the ‘ salvation of the nation ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ No , they felt it their duty to struggle on , ’ said Daisy , half to herself |
| 16 | Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again . |
| 17 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 18 | Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang 's career from the start at the expense of his own . |
| 19 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 20 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 21 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 22 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 23 | ‘ However , young or not , I felt it my duty to see you and explain . ’ |
| 24 | Er but since this is a relatively new area of technology , we felt it our responsibility to report this . |
| 25 | Students , feeling it their duty to point out the shortcomings of policies and personalities in Chinese politics , exercised their traditional custom of remonstrating several times throughout Deng 's decade of reform . |