Example sentences of "[pron] feels [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 2 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 3 | On the other hand , and it is extremely complex and it indeed , it probably erm amounts to the fact that each wom woman has to consider how she feels herself |
| 4 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 5 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 6 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 7 | He feels himself to be privileged . |
| 8 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 9 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 10 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |