Example sentences of "felt as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth felt as if a blow had been delivered to her ribs with a mallet . |
| 2 | Virginia felt as if a steel door had slammed shut inside her . |
| 3 | When Virginia Woolf first read Lawrence , she said she felt as if a curtain had been thrown back , so she could see , clearly , for the first time , the intensity of family relationships . |
| 4 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 5 | I felt as if every muscle had been ripped out . |
| 6 | I loved her , and when she died I felt as if every light in the world had dimmed . ’ |
| 7 | IT FELT as if an earthquake had just hit the City . |
| 8 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 9 | He felt as if the floor were shifting under his feet , giddy as he tried to take in what was happening . |
| 10 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 11 | I felt as if the top of my head was lifting off . |
| 12 | Sabine , coaxed into taking a sip from Rohan 's glass , felt as if the top of her head had exploded , and laughingly refused any more . |
| 13 | Eileen , who 'd been beaten into writing legibly by the nuns , felt as if the writer did n't care whether her letters were decipherable or not . |
| 14 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 15 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 16 | He kissed you and it felt as if time had stood still and when he stopped you felt as if the bottom had dropped out of your world . |
| 17 | Robyn pressed her hand to her mouth , read his words two — three times , staring down at Mark 's writing to where that name was etched indelibly in black ink , and felt as if the anguish had paralysed every part of her . |
| 18 | She felt as if the breath had been suddenly knocked out of her . |
| 19 | Sarah felt as if the room was spinning round , fearing that everyone would glance in her direction . |
| 20 | Sometimes she felt as if the antipathy between daughter and motherin-law had simply surfaced anew between daughter and mother . |
| 21 | In the morning his head felt as if the cast of a soap opera had moved in uninvited during the night , and the effort of following their interminable dreary intrigues left him mentally soiled and worn , less refreshed than when he 'd gone to bed . |
| 22 | ‘ It was as if , ’ she said later to her husband , William , when in bed that night , ‘ I felt as if the house had suddenly been blessed . |
| 23 | At that moment he felt as if the chain he had taken from Mary Duncan now fettered him to his wife . |