Example sentences of "[prep] feeling the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you feel confident in the assessors you can relax and behave as you should instead of feeling the need to get yourself noticed . |
| 2 | Get into the habit first of feeling the sheer thrill and exhilaration of getting out of doors away from telephones , noise , and distractions . |
| 3 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
| 4 | And I attacked his view ( that ‘ to have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot ‘ ) by saying that to talk of feeling the heat of one 's hand without touching it would be like talking of feeling the roughness of the back of one 's hand without touching it . |
| 5 | And I attacked his view ( that ‘ to have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot ‘ ) by saying that to talk of feeling the heat of one 's hand without touching it would be like talking of feeling the roughness of the back of one 's hand without touching it . |
| 6 | Suppose , however , that I simulate or even by coincidence pass through whatever sequence of states is taken to be sufficient for the conscious episode of feeling the prick of the needle . |
| 7 | Another way of feeling the lag of the right side is one of turning away and then trying to stay turned while the attack on the ball takes place . |
| 8 | It was a mistake , and she gasped at the intensity of feeling the slight contact produced . |
| 9 | As he did so , he struck out reflexively with his knife at the outstretched leg of the flying figure , and had the satisfaction of feeling the blade strike home . |
| 10 | In chapter twenty-four , when he identifies the desire for God which fuels the contemplative 's journey with Jesus , he uses language which echoes Matthew 's account of the Resurrection and comments : In the reformation of feeling the contemplative is moving beyond the love understood and expressed by means of the suffering involved in penance , to the fruit of the risen lord . |
| 11 | Her fear at what was about to happen assumed the image of one black ogre , defeated instantly by the joy of feeling the strength of his body against hers , conscious of the sureness , the confidence , the single-mindedness of his wanting . |
| 12 | Are either of the children beginning to , to show the signs of feeling the impact of their father not being about ? |
| 13 | It was like feeling the soft dints at the top of a coconut . |
| 14 | It 's like feeling the car move to your bidding on that first driving lesson — thrilling , potentially dangerous and powerful . |
| 15 | Once we have been triggered into feeling the loss of someone who was important the grieving process is more likely to be able to start . |
| 16 | When , for example , a small community experiences a tragedy in its midst , it seems that a community response quickly follows which draws people into feeling the tragedy . |
| 17 | ‘ I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … . |
| 18 | How you knew that you 'd fallen hopelessly , profoundly in love with someone who was very far from feeling the same way ? |
| 19 | She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body . |
| 20 | A poem is good because of its emotional content and the feeling of the poet which is placed in the symbols of words , and the true joy of poetry is in feeling the same emotions as the poet . |
| 21 | He ate and drank with relish , pointing out a fishing boat leaving Sligo harbour , remarking how Rosses point across the bay had safe bathing while here you could n't stand in the water without feeling the currents pushing the sand out from under your feet . |
| 22 | BRAZIL gently teased Holland 's irregulars in the rains of Rotterdam last night without feeling the need to reveal the full range of their attacking talents for the benefit of prying eyes from Scotland and England . |
| 23 | BRAZIL teased and tantalised Holland 's irregulars in Rotterdam last night without feeling the need to reveal the full range of their talents for the benefit of prying eyes from Scotland and England . |
| 24 | Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election . |
| 25 | Over the years we 've enjoyed annual family holidays without feeling the pinch and we 've built up good relationships with our neighbours and the surrounding community . |
| 26 | Thus , Sabino Arana invents the name Euskadi for the country of the people who had long given themselves , and been given , a collective name ( Basques , Gascons or whatever ) , but without feeling the need for the sort of country , state or nation Arana had in mind . |
| 27 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
| 28 | Yet according to Armstrong one can be aware of the heat of some material things , the parts of one 's body , without feeling the heat with anything . |
| 29 | No team can lose the likes of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league — along with a class centre like Scott Gibbs to the competition — without feeling the pinch , but they 'll come again . |
| 30 | Having at last managed to hold himself upright for five minutes without feeling the need to vomit , he started to order his heart . |