Example sentences of "felt [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I felt I had good cause .
2 I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant .
3 Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me …
4 I felt I needed different challenges , to move on .
5 At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident .
6 She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said .
7 With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others .
8 ‘ I felt you disapproved last night , ’ he said .
9 He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs .
10 Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens .
11 The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women .
12 It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home .
13 The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life .
14 At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area .
15 Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in .
16 Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in .
17 But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool .
18 Sales director David Nelsey added : ‘ She felt he had total disrespect for women . ’
19 He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come .
20 He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they .
21 He felt he needed more brandy , but the glass was nearly empty and the bottle was in the kitchen .
22 Erik Hazelhoft-Roelfzema was accepted eventually , hut I still felt he wanted more experience .
23 But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’
24 84% felt it covered all aspects associated with the subject matter .
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