I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a feeling of anger
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He was overcome by a sudden feeling of anger against the people who had put him there.
a feeling of happiness
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Being by the ocean gave her a feeling of great happiness.
a feeling of joy
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A feeling of total joy swept over him.
a feeling of nausea
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Many women have feelings of nausea in early pregnancy.
a feeling/sense of gratitude
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She had a sudden feeling of gratitude towards him.
a feeling/sense of guilt ( also guilt feelings )
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I had a permanent feeling of guilt that I didn't see Mum and Dad as often as I should.
a feeling/sense of nostalgia
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Did it give you a sense of nostalgia to see the play on Broadway again?
a feeling/sense of pity
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Annie experienced a sudden feeling of pity for the young man.
a lived-in look/feel
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The most fashionable jeans this winter have a lived-in look.
a sense/feeling of disappointment
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For days he couldn't get over his sense of deep disappointment.
a sense/feeling of doom
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Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.
a sense/feeling of excitement
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He woke up that morning with a feeling of excitement.
a sense/feeling of importance (= a feeling that you are an important person )
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Sitting behind the big desk gave her a feeling of importance.
a sense/feeling of panic
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She looked out to sea with a rising sense of panic.
a sense/feeling of relief
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She was filled with an overwhelming sense of relief.
a sense/feeling of satisfaction
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performing such a difficult piece gave her a deep sense of satisfaction.
a sense/feeling of well-being
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A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being.
a strong feeling
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I have a lot of strong feelings on the issue.
a vague sense/feeling
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She had a vague feeling that she had let something important slip away.
be/feel enthusiastic
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The Irish are very enthusiastic about horse racing.
be/feel happy for sb
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What a wonderful opportunity! I’m so happy for you.
be/feel honour bound to do sth (= feel that you should do something, because it is morally right or your duty to do it )
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My father felt honour bound to help his sister.
check/feel sb's pulse
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The nurse left the room after checking the girl's pulse.
convey a feeling
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How could he convey his feelings for her?
feel a bond
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The people of the island feel a strong bond with each other.
feel a right/proper charlie (= feel very stupid )
feel a thrill written:
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I felt a thrill of anticipation as I waited for her train to arrive.
feel an effect (= notice it )
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Small companies will feel the effect of the recession first.
feel an obligation
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When his mother died, he felt an obligation to continue her work.
feel comfortable
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You’ll probably feel most comfortable wearing cotton clothes.
feel committed
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I never really felt committed to the job.
feel concern
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A lot of people felt some concern about the proposal.
feel confident
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He began to feel confident that Zaborski was only guessing.
feel depressed
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The boy said he was unhappy at school and felt depressed.
feel dizzy
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The heat and the champagne made him feel dizzy .
feel embarrassed
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I felt embarrassed that he had seen me cry.
feel fine
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I feel fine , really.
feel for a pulse (= try to find and check someone's pulse )
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I felt for a pulse, but I couldn't find one.
feel funny
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I always feel funny after a long car ride.
feel giddy
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Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy .
feel gratitude
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He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea.
feel guilt
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She didn’t feel any guilt; she had done nothing wrong.
feel hatred
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It was terrifying to know that someone could feel such hatred towards me.
feel ill
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I’ve been feeling ill since I woke up this morning.
feel important
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They carry guns because it makes them feel important .
feel inadequate
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The teacher made us feel inadequate and stupid if we made mistakes.
feel inferior
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Women are made to feel inferior by men's violence towards them.
feel jealousy
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He felt a lot of jealousy at the thought of her with Tony.
feel like crying
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I feel like crying every time I think about that day.
feel loyalty towards sb/sth
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Marco felt an intense loyalty to his native country.
feel lucky
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I feel so incredibly lucky to have had that experience.
feel nervous
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He looked at her for so long that she began to feel nervous.
feel nostalgia
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He didn't feel any nostalgia for his school days.
feel obliged to do sth (= feel that you have a duty to do something )
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Many parents feel obliged to pay for at least part of the wedding.
feel OK
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Do you feel OK now?
feel pain
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The dentist told me that I wouldn’t feel any pain.
feel panic
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He felt a mild panic.
feel pity (for sb)
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No one can look at these photographs and not feel pity.
feel queasy
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The sea got rougher, and I began to feel queasy .
feel relief
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I felt nothing but relief when it was over.
feel relieved
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She was tired, and felt relieved when they all decided to go.
feel resentment
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He felt resentment at the criticism.
feel safe
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She doesn’t feel safe in the house on her own.
feel satisfaction
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As she looked at what she had created, she felt a quiet satisfaction.
feel scared
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She was beginning to feel a bit scared.
feel secure
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Workers no longer feel secure about the future.
feel so inclined
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You can visit our chat rooms, if you feel so inclined .
feel sorry for yourself (= feel unhappy and pity yourself )
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It’s no good feeling sorry for yourself. It’s all your own fault.
feel special
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a teacher who made every child feel special
feel the impact of sth
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The industry has felt the impact of rising fuel prices.
feel unhappy
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After a while I didn’t feel quite so unhappy.
feel welcome
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I didn’t feel welcome in the club.
feel...alive
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It was the kind of morning when you wake up and feel really alive .
feel...confident
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I feel quite confident about the future.
feel...confident
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I feel much more confident about myself and my abilities these days.
feel/experience an emotion
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Seeing him with his new wife, she felt emotions that she did not want to feel again.
feel/experience joy
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He had never felt the joy of watching the seasons come and go.
feel...faint
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The heat made him feel quite faint .
feel...guilty
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I feel really guilty at forgetting her birthday again.
feel/have a sense of sth
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I felt a great sense of pride.
feel/have an urge
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I still sometimes feel an urge to have a cigarette.
feel/have/experience a sensation
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He felt a tingling sensation down his left side.
feeling all right
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Are you feeling all right ?
feeling distinctly
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Paul was left feeling distinctly foolish.
feeling empty
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The divorce left him feeling empty and bitter.
feeling miserable
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I spent the weekend feeling miserable .
feeling the squeeze (= noticing the effects of a difficult financial situation )
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All manufacturers are feeling the squeeze .
feeling weak
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The illness left her feeling weak .
feeling...better
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I’m feeling much better , thank you.
feeling...blue
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I’ve been feeling kind of blue .
feeling...good
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Lyn’s not feeling too good today.
feeling...peckish
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She was feeling a bit peckish .
feeling...randy
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She was feeling very randy .
feel/look/sound offended
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Stella was beginning to feel a little offended.
feel...nostalgic
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Seeing those old school photographs has made me feel quite nostalgic .
feel/show/have compassion
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Did he feel any compassion for the victim of his crime?
feel/suffer from anxiety
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The child may feel anxiety about being away from home.
feel...well-disposed
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I did not feel particularly well-disposed towards him.
feel...well
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I don’t feel very well .
fellow feeling
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As an only child myself, I had a fellow feeling for Laura.
felt a glow of
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Sophie felt a glow of pride.
felt a kinship
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He felt a kinship with the only other American on the base.
felt compelled
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She felt compelled to resign because of the scandal.
felt elated
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He felt elated and mildly drunk.
felt happier
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I’ve never felt happier in my life.
felt hurt
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Rachel felt hurt and betrayed.
felt muzzy
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Juliet’s head felt muzzy , and she hoped she hadn’t a cold coming on.
felt proprietorial
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She felt proprietorial about the valley.
felt queasy
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Many Democrats felt queasy about the issue.
felt slighted
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Derek felt slighted when no one phoned him back.
felt so alone
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I cried like a child because I felt so alone .
felt stiff
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I never felt stiff after training until I was in my thirties.
felt...daunted
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He felt utterly daunted by the prospect of moving to another country.
felt...groggy
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I felt really groggy after 15 hours on the plane.
felt...grotty
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The next day I felt a bit grotty .
felt...insecure
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She felt lonely and insecure away from her family.
felt...naked
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Standing in front on his first day of teaching, Brad felt completely naked .
felt...nauseous
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I felt slightly nauseous .
felt...shiver
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She felt a shiver of apprehension.
funny feeling
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I had a funny feeling something was going to happen.
get/feel/be seasick
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Hal was seasick almost at once.
had...sinking feeling
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I had a sinking feeling inside as I realized I was going to fail yet again.
have/feel an impulse to
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Rosa had an impulse to tell Henry the truth.
have/feel no compunction about (doing) sth
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He had no compunction about interfering in her private affairs.
have/feel sympathy for sb
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It’s hard not to feel sympathy for the losing team.
have/feel/show etc nothing but contempt
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The public should have nothing but contempt for bad journalism.
I have a horrible feeling that
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I have a horrible feeling that we’re going to miss the plane.
ill feeling
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‘I’m sorry. No ill feeling?’ ‘None,’ she replied.
look/feel foolish
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He’d been made to look foolish.
look/feel your age (= look or feel as old as you really are )
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The singer is 46, but she doesn’t look her age at all.
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I keep getting aches in my legs and I’m starting to feel my age.
look/sound/feel bored
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Some of the students were starting to look bored.
look/sound/feel/taste/seem like
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The garden looked like a jungle.
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At last he felt like a real soldier.
make...feel welcome
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We try to make the new students feel welcome .
nagging feeling/doubt/suspicion etc
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There was still a nagging doubt in the back of her mind.
nasty feeling/suspicion
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I had a nasty feeling that a tragedy was going to happen.
sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth
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I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.
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I couldn’t help thinking about the past.
sense/feeling of inferiority
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He had a deep-rooted feeling of inferiority.
sense/feeling of unease
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As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.
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public unease about defence policy
share a feeling
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I know that many people do not share my feelings.
sound/taste/smell/feel etc great
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I worked out this morning and I feel great.
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You look great in that dress.
tingling feeling/sensation
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Graham felt a tingling sensation in his hand.
unconscious feeling/desire/need etc
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an unconscious need to be loved
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
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When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better .
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Young said it felt better on Monday, and he hoped to practice Thursday or Friday.
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When the giant dresser disappeared for ever I felt better still.
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I wanted to be so independent, but here I am waiting for some man to make me feel better about myself.
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We'd got some work behind us at last, and felt better for it.
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I guess if it makes you feel better , you should do it.
so
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Poor little thing, she would be feeling so lonely and frightened, and Jean's kind heart went out to her.
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But they also told these stories because they felt so disturbed by the alienation and hostility of some black students.
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I felt so cross with myself, so stupid for wearing a short skirt.
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I feel so overwhelmed with hopelessness.
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Sadness over mining deaths I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery.
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I feel so fortunate to be back.
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Why did it have to make her feel so horrid and ashamed?
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Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
still
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Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.
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Seeing events from this perspective, I felt and still feel justified in defending Jack.
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I took her hand in mine and it was warm, and I felt still that strong persistent throb of life.
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He was a winner who still felt he could challenge the field each and every week.
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Then she tantalisingly hints at the bitterness she still feels towards his first wife.
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She could still feel the points in her throat where the Nina Thing's fingers had fastened.
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I still felt a hunger inside me.
■ NOUN
need
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By then he felt no need to take William Joyce with him.
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Why he felt the need to record these deaths he could not explain.
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Yet even when they are, we feel the need to justify them; which is where Rollin resorts to moral theory.
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Very briefly, closing her eyes, Kathy felt the need to cry.
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I feel the need for another fattening snack.
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Why did Joe Fogarty feel the need to protect Jack Diamond?
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Roughly half the children who are adopted feel an urgent need to discover their origins.
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They felt a desperate need for credible values and a personal spiritual center.
sense
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He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway.
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He feels , in a sense , betrayed.
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I feel strongly now the sense of other worlds, worlds which I will never know.
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For the first time in many years, maybe ever, he felt a sense of sureness about himself.
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Charles felt an uncomfortable sense of urgency.
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As a black woman, I want to feel a greater sense of control.
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Again he felt that sense of an unseen force, an intense will.
■ VERB
make
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It does mean we have to make extra effort to make visitors and newcomers feel welcome.
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Most important, their impact rests on how they made you feel about yourself.
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We may succumb to flattery because it makes us feel good.
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I laughed at how easily the man could make me feel like a fool.
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Somehow it made even him feel uncomfortable.
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Other questions have more to do with making the recipient feel safe than with medicine.
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People like feeling pity for people, it makes them feel lucky.
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The situation made me feel like an applicant who is absurdly unqualified for a job-or a felon appearing before a parole board.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
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I felt like a fish out of water.
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In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
I don't feel too hot/so hot/very hot
I know the feeling
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"She makes me so mad I could scream!" "I know the feeling ."
a feeling for sth
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And yet he had a feeling for her.
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Blues singers do well in Ireland, as Celts have a feeling for Negro music.
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Fat Vince has a feeling for me also, I reckon.
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Firstly, look at a few maps of zodiacs already published to get a feeling for them.
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Individuals should enjoy themselves, but also keep a feeling for the collectivity.
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Rather we get a feeling for the differences in the island societies through encounters with restaurant owners.
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Singer's religion is also a feeling for the power of the community to censure and reject.
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You have a feeling for these people.
bad/ill feeling
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There have been bad feelings between area residents and police.
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Even though Amelia participated so little in school activities, she harbored no ill feelings toward Hyde Park.
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I figure there had to be some bad feeling .
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I got a very bad feeling as we pitched into the bathroom and-fumbled for the mouthwash.
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I have bad feelings for the smugglers, though.
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It's got bad feelings for me, this room.
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It was the start of bad feeling between the two.
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Jane Blasio harbors no ill feelings toward Hicks.
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There is no bad feeling between us.
be/feel at home
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As it was with Kip, Martinez seemed to be at home with himself.
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But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home .
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Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there.
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The g was less, and that made me feel at home .
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This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home .
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With the politics of action too, I feel at home .
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Would she ever feel at home in this relentless, pitiless city?
be/feel bound to do sth
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Even as she felt bound to her family, she felt a childish need to rebel.
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If you were married to me I wouldn't expect you to be bound to the house all day, every day.
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It had been a solemn and impressive ceremony and, whatever my uncertainties, I felt bound to respond.
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Just as, in writing, I think little men should be bound to mere journeyman work...
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She seemed unwilling to acknowledge that this might not be wise and would be bound to cause her parents concern.
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Some human would be bound to see you.
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They would be bound to see such a use as virtual expropriation, without compensation.
be/feel conflicted (about sth)
be/feel constrained to do sth
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I feel constrained to tell the truth.
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Alternatively, the collective good is seen as paramount, and individual freedom must be constrained to achieve that collective good.
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Because they are unsure of their male identities, they feel constrained to prove them continually.
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Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.
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Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so.
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You could take Richard anywhere too but you would feel constrained to keep explaining he was a genius.
be/feel disinclined to do sth
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The President said that he was disinclined to send in American troops.
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He felt disinclined to argue while the calendar was there to remind him that he was down to his last twenty-five days.
be/feel hard done by
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Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by.
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The idea of a passenger going without pudding and then leaving the aircraft feeling hard done by troubles them.
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Thomas felt hard done by, contested the will and lost.
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To any readers who feel hard done by or annoyed please accept my sincere apologies.
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You've every right to feel hard done by, so don't start thinking that you're being selfish.
be/feel honour bound to do sth
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Don't you tell him either, because he'd feel honour bound to do something about it.
be/feel in the mood (for sth)
be/feel inclined (to do sth)
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After reading this book, you might be inclined to think so.
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I would be inclined to add an external canister filter to your set-up, such as an Eheim 2215.
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I would be inclined to remove the odd fish, though.
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Still, when he makes a statement such as you refer to, I would be inclined to believe him.
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The faster the heart beats the more rapidly we may be inclined to breathe and the more oxygen we take in.
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The Fed chief implied the central bank might be inclined to wait until its March 20 meeting before taking such a step.
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We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want.
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We naturally feel inclined to reject these theories for that reason.
be/feel like a new man/woman
be/feel on top of the world
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In the spring of 1995, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world .
be/feel ready for sth
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Crews had to be ready for hostile fire from the ground.
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He seems to be ready for the more burdensome necessities of the job.
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I think he will be ready for a place in the 2003 World Cup... perhaps.
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It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
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Manufacture is now proceeding and the equipment will be ready for installation on Reactor 2 in May 1993.
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Novel No. 80 should be ready for publication soon.
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Pitching coach Dave Wallace said that Radinsky still has time to be ready for the season opener.
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The financial statement will be ready for the A.G.M. The donations from the general public show a decrease on previous years.
be/feel sorry for sb
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For a minute, she felt sorry for the girl.
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I just feel sorry for the ones who didn't make the team.
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A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning.
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He feels sorry for himself, torn between two jealousies.
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Nobody felt sorry for my sister.
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One feels sorry for the little ones in some circumstances and they nearly become like children - but not quite.
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They'd be sorry for me, they'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist.
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Watching him shuffle off to the press room, I felt sorry for poor Feels.
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Yet he made her feel sorry for Miss Lavant, a woman she'd hardly thought about before.
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Your problem is that every time a relationship goes bad, you feel sorry for yourself and become more of a loner.
be/feel/look like your old self
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After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
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Aren't you cold ?
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Come inside before you get cold .
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But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
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He was getting cold , too.
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It was getting cold in the room.
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My chips will be cold by now.
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She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
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She was afraid his skin would be cold .
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Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold .
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Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/feel/seem etc disposed to do sth
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Congress has had a torrent of learned advice on this amendment, none of which it seems disposed to listen to.
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Ernest Conway had never felt disposed to adopt a conventional, benign, grandfatherly role.
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Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.
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Headteachers say governors come to school on special occasions but don't seem disposed to become involved more routinely in school affairs.
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James didn't seem disposed to take the hint.
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Seb's father was a large, comfortable-looking man who did not seem disposed to make a fuss.
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The brothers exchanged glances, neither saying a word, though they seemed disposed to.
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The very houses seemed disposed to pack up and take trips.
feel bad
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I feel bad about not going to Debbie's party, but I've just got too much to do.
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I feel bad about what I said. Things haven't been easy for either of us.
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I felt bad about not being able to come last night.
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I should have told Helen I was sorry. I feel really bad that I didn't.
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We had a long talk about it afterwards and I know she felt bad .
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Being with the nuns only made it feel worse .
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Continually feeling bad about how your body looks limits your self-esteem, which eventually undercuts your immune power.
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Do I feel bad , exploited, put down?
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I felt bad about David, whose roots are in labor.
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It's very ... I felt bad afterwards.
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That makes me feel bad because I don't want to go anywhere else.
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Turning the mirror over, I feel worse than before.
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Whenever I go to London I feel bad for Georgie.
feel free
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But she tells me she still does not feel free .
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Help him or her feel free to talk.
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How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life?
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I felt free in a new way.
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If not, feel free to discard them and draw your own.
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If you should wish to look inside the packet, before sending it, feel free to do so.
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So he felt free to go for broke.
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So how is it they feel free to ask those parallel questions of other people?
feel like/turn to jelly
feel lousy
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He had himself escaped, but, he said matter-of-factly, he had always felt lousy about the others.
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I feel lousy when I have some terrific game to review and there's no space on my hard drive for it.
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I was prepared to feel lousy and to continue to feel lousy.
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One time after a close loss, I told him I felt lousy and I didn't want to go shake hands.
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Will you spend the rest of the day feeling lousy ?
feel peculiar/come over all peculiar
feel rotten
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I've felt rotten all day.
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If Rosa Lee felt like having a good time, or felt rotten , she would get high.
feel rough
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Don't get up if you're feeling rough - I'll bring you some breakfast in bed.
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Liz said she was feeling pretty rough yesterday -- I don't think she'll come to work today.
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A worn braid feels rough and is best cut away and the line joined by a blood knot.
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The altitude had suddenly hit her and she was feeling rough .
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The skin feels rough and dry like the bark of trees.
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We say this as readily as we say that they taste sweet, feel rough , or look red.
feel sick
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He developed a severe headache and felt very sick by day three.
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I felt sick after I ate all that candy.
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I had no urge to smoke when I was pregnant. It made me feel sick to my stomach.
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If you feel sick , there's the bowl, okay?
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We'd only been in the car two minutes when David said he felt sick .
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When I was pregnant, the smell of coffee made me feel sick to my stomach.
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He felt good and then felt sick about the way he had pissed him off on the phone like that.
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He is talking directly to us and we do feel sick .
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I feel sick , and we still have a few minutes left.
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I looked at the picture and felt sick .
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It smears my file, and I feel sick every time I look at it.
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Sometimes after I watch a match, I feel sick because of it.
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We crossed the street, I felt sick .
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When he heard the girls were dead he felt sick .
feel strange
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I left the debate feeling strange - I didn't know what to believe.
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But after one particularly long session of playing on it he began to feel strange .
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He says that he felt strange and fell on to the floor.
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I was tired and felt strange and lost in a faraway, disgusting place.
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It felt strange to be in possession of two hats.
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It felt strange to be in the schoolhouse at night.
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It must have felt strange for her not to head directly for the Loreto Convent at Entally.
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One reason Muriel felt strange in Atchison was that she had to be on her best behavior for her grandparents.
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When I first went in, it felt strange .
feel suffocated
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I felt suffocated living in the city.
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Although the gear had no contact with any of my breathing apparatus, I felt suffocated .
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His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere ... Her heart tripped unevenly, and she felt suffocated .
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I felt suffocated and found it physically very difficult to breathe.
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I make you feel suffocated , do I, with my loving?
feel the pinch
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Local stores and businesses are beginning to feel the pinch from the economic crisis.
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Chichester was not the only Sussex town to feel the pinch of economic decay.
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He felt the pinch of depravity.
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In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.
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Meanwhile, with its future hanging in the balance, Fokker is starting to feel the pinch .
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Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20 and its clear commuters are feeling the pinch .
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Schools in the poorest areas, already short of resources, are certainly feeling the pinch .
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Small businesses dependent on the government also are feeling the pinch .
feel your gorge rise
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Wendy and I felt our gorge rise, and simply could not eat.
feel/be beholden to sb
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Ludwig is beholden to the President, who gave him his job.
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I don't like to be beholden to anybody, I like to be my own boss.
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There was no longer any need for her to be beholden to Fen Marshall.
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Yet most judges I know are beholden to Power-by that I mean unalterably pledged to the dominant force of the system.
feel/be lost
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I'd be lost without all your help.
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Energy expressed in a passive way is lost for ever.
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I walked on and yet it was all new and different and I realized I was lost again.
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I was lost in a little ocean of fog.
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Many pilots will drift into other careers and be lost to the industry for good.
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Some will revel in having more time for themselves; others will feel lost .
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Sometimes, valuable time can be lost .
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The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost .
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To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
feel/know sth in your bones
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I know nothing's ever going to happen - I can feel it in my bones .
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And he was innocent of murder; she felt it in her bones .
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He could feel it in his bones , and he knew he could trust the feeling.
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He felt sure in his bones that their man would try something tonight.
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I can feel it in my bones .
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She could feel it in her bones .
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Something was very wrong, she could feel it in her bones , but what was it?
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The fog horn started booming, a deep, thrilling vibration that Madame Astarti could feel resonate in her bones .
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
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He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
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In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
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I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
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And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
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Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit .
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Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
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I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit .
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It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit .
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The school made you feel like shit .
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We really do look like shit .
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You looked like shit the other night.
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
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It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
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It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration
have a vague idea/feeling/recollection etc (that)
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I can remember nothing of them, but I have a vague feeling of having been well cared for.
have/get the feeling (that)
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As I contemplate the process of separation / individuation I may have feelings and sensations that I can not articulate.
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As soon as things are really good, I always have a feeling the rug is about to be pulled out from under me.
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But I have feeling in my hand back.
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Certainly, younger children show affection and have feelings of liking and disliking.
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I have a feeling he will win.
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I have a feeling that there is now more of my past life than my future.
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I have a feeling we may be wrong about the taxes.
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I have a feeling you won't need that radio.
look/feel awful
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You look awful - what's wrong?
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Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
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For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful .
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He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful .
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I felt awful , ill, all beaten up.
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In fact she felt awful , nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
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Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful , stunk and tasted lousy?
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The next morning I felt awful .
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Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful .
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
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Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly .
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If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
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Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
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She was sober now but she felt ghastly .
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They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
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A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
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Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
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Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
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It makes him feel small and worthless.
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No to make me look small , that's her object!
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Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
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She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
make sb feel at home
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He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home .
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It is our duty to make them feel at home here.
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Or some chum of Matt's put it there to make him feel at home .
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The g was less, and that made me feel at home .
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Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome, for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home .
make your presence felt
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Bruce wasted little time making his presence felt by scoring in the first ten minutes of the game.
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A sense of urgency begins to make its presence felt.
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After two miles of road, and maybe the first blisters and unknown muscles making their presence felt, came the test!
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But Kiker quickly made his presence felt.
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Eva was more used to making her presence felt.
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In music, art, architecture, and so on, they make their presence felt.
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She was a very pretty girl and made her presence felt almost at once.
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Some ant cuckoo females make their presence felt in more dramatic fashion.
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There were also other things moving around and making their presence felt.
not be/feel themselves
not be/feel/seem herself
not be/feel/seem himself
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He had not felt himself a part of what governments decided.
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He had not felt himself bound by their rules - basically, he hadn't felt himself.
not feel/be myself
not seem/be/feel yourself
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
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As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
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From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
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In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
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It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
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There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
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These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
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To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
the feeling is mutual
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Well, if Dave doesn't want to play with me, then the feeling is mutual.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
with feeling
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Baktiar spoke of Iran with deep feeling .
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I want you to sing it once more, this time with feeling .
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She writes with great feeling about the fate of the refugees, having been a refugee herself in the last year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The flowers look so real - I can't believe they're silk," she said, feeling the petals.
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Doctor Wright felt the baby's stomach, checking that it was not hard.
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He's feeling guilty for not writing her back.
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How does it feel to be home?
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I feel sorry for her.
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I feel that we're just beginning to make progress, and that it would be wrong to stop now.
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I felt a definite sense of danger and impending disaster.
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I felt like if I didn't speak up then, I would never do it.
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I felt someone was following me, but when I turned around, there was nobody there.
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I always felt I had the ability to become a reasonable actor.
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I don't really feel hungry yet.
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It felt great to be up in the mountains.
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It felt kind of weird being back in school.
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It is a common experience to feel that an author writes well without being able to say exactly why.
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Just feel this material - it's so soft!
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Liz's parents feel she isn't old enough to leave home.
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She felt okay last night, but she had a fever this morning.
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She felt that something else was going to happen and that it wouldn't be good.
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The clothes still feel slightly damp.
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The earthquake was felt as far south as Carpenteria.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the increase in temperature will not be felt evenly.
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But the feeling of justice requires that the wrong be righted.
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I felt very proud of her and read her the letter.
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I think people felt we were aiming for this point, but we never had the opportunity to do it before.
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In a way, his presence will continue to be felt in the department even after he is gone.
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This Secretary of State does not feel the need to go through such a consultation process.
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This time the other customers do not feel hungry.
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To be sure, some investors feel the impact of a weaker yen on bonds may be limited.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel .
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The dough has a discernibly different feel about it when this transformation occurs.
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It had a different feel to it, a different look, a different smell.
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Does the dash have a different feel about it, different to the feel of speech marks?
good
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It had a good feel about it.
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I have a better feel for the offense.
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You can give them theory, you can give them a good feel for it, and work on the individual skills.
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They should have a good feel for the sector's long-term confidence.
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It is not comprehensive but gives you a good feel for each of its 196 entries.
real
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Here you get the real feel of the ocean.
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Just 100 yards from the seafront and you step back through the centuries, giving you a real feel of medieval life.
smooth
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It has a smooth , soft feel to the skin, is fully breathable, windproof and easy care.
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Under-fired glazes may be dull and do nor have a smooth glassy feel .
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Libby liked the smooth feel of the stems, the way they splintered.
soft
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It has a smooth, soft feel to the skin, is fully breathable, windproof and easy care.
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The soft , perished feel of the old washer which rubbed black on your fingers as you took it out of the tap.
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The soft , fine feel tells you this is pure lambswool, pure luxury.
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This has a nice soft feel to it.
■ VERB
get
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Walk around the Tor and on the footpaths of the surrounding levels to get a feel for this legend-full land.
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It was here that I first started to get a closer feel for what the military operations were.
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Experiment with the machine until you get the feel .
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Whenever possible I devoured local newspapers, trying to get a feel for the politics and social conditions of each place.
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Katharine concentrates on getting the feel of Benji, as they work in.
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Playing the game itself is lots of fun, once you get a feel for the actual shot settings.
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But this stage is vitally important for the researcher to get the feel of the situation.
give
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The demo has a five-minute time limit but gives you a precise feel for the game.
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You can give them theory, you can give them a good feel for it, and work on the individual skills.
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The master bedroom is equally charming with delicate lace draped across the archway to give an almost Eastern feel .
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It is not comprehensive but gives you a good feel for each of its 196 entries.
love
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He runs downhill, loving the feel of the air rushing past him.
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She loved the feel of his arm around her.
make
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The aim was to make Fong feel wanted.
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Alex had thought, You're throwing me away and trying to make yourself feel good about it.
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It makes me feel like the bars are clamped on the window.
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Did I want to seek publicity just to make myself feel better?
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It's silly to make yourself feel bad.
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There was something in the quality of his quiet, confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them.
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It is making the poor feel rich.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be/feel) like a fish out of water
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I felt like a fish out of water.
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In his first interview since the move, he still looks like a fish out of water.
I don't feel too hot/so hot/very hot
be/feel at home
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As it was with Kip, Martinez seemed to be at home with himself.
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But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home .
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Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there.
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The g was less, and that made me feel at home .
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This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home .
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With the politics of action too, I feel at home .
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Would she ever feel at home in this relentless, pitiless city?
be/feel bound to do sth
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Even as she felt bound to her family, she felt a childish need to rebel.
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If you were married to me I wouldn't expect you to be bound to the house all day, every day.
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It had been a solemn and impressive ceremony and, whatever my uncertainties, I felt bound to respond.
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Just as, in writing, I think little men should be bound to mere journeyman work...
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She seemed unwilling to acknowledge that this might not be wise and would be bound to cause her parents concern.
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Some human would be bound to see you.
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They would be bound to see such a use as virtual expropriation, without compensation.
be/feel called to do sth
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Back then, people believed they were called to the ministry.
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Father really felt he was called to preach by God.
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Paul and his helpers were called to be missionaries for Jesus Christ.
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Sandy felt called to do missionary work.
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But the most controversial is expected to be called to the witness stand.
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He said that the police would be called to investigate Dempsey and he would be out of a job.
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How many more outrageous examples of excess in political fund raising and spending do they need to be called to action?
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Managers who live in the hotel usually have regular work schedules, but they may be called to work at any time.
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Responsibility refers to the liability of a person to be called to account for his/her actions and results.
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The general meeting of the shareholders of the target company may be called to decide upon defence measures.
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We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task.
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Why, then, should lawyers be called to task for protecting the rights of the accused under the Constitution?
be/feel conflicted (about sth)
be/feel constrained to do sth
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I feel constrained to tell the truth.
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Alternatively, the collective good is seen as paramount, and individual freedom must be constrained to achieve that collective good.
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Because they are unsure of their male identities, they feel constrained to prove them continually.
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Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.
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Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so.
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You could take Richard anywhere too but you would feel constrained to keep explaining he was a genius.
be/feel disinclined to do sth
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The President said that he was disinclined to send in American troops.
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He felt disinclined to argue while the calendar was there to remind him that he was down to his last twenty-five days.
be/feel hard done by
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Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by.
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The idea of a passenger going without pudding and then leaving the aircraft feeling hard done by troubles them.
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Thomas felt hard done by, contested the will and lost.
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To any readers who feel hard done by or annoyed please accept my sincere apologies.
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You've every right to feel hard done by, so don't start thinking that you're being selfish.
be/feel honour bound to do sth
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Don't you tell him either, because he'd feel honour bound to do something about it.
be/feel honoured (to do sth)
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But, of course, writing something into a constitution does not necessarily mean that it will be honoured in practice.
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Existing hardware support and service agreements will be honoured , it says.
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Going down now to a place where his certainties would finally be honoured .
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He doubted if his hatred of Dysart could even be honoured with the description of revenge.
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He, too. is convinced that a contract signed has to be honoured .
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In such cases the courts have said that the promise must be honoured .
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Individual boatmen should also be honoured through clubs nominating skippers for their ability to find fish and their helpfulness towards anglers.
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It should be remembered, and she should be honoured for it.
be/feel in the mood (for sth)
be/feel inclined (to do sth)
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After reading this book, you might be inclined to think so.
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I would be inclined to add an external canister filter to your set-up, such as an Eheim 2215.
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I would be inclined to remove the odd fish, though.
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Still, when he makes a statement such as you refer to, I would be inclined to believe him.
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The faster the heart beats the more rapidly we may be inclined to breathe and the more oxygen we take in.
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The Fed chief implied the central bank might be inclined to wait until its March 20 meeting before taking such a step.
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We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want.
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We naturally feel inclined to reject these theories for that reason.
be/feel left out
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The whole time I went to the youth group I felt completely left out.
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A man can feel left out during pregnancy.
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But some will be left out.
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Can it really be left out?
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Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents, because she had none.
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Had we picked Emburey, I think Willis would have been the one to be left out.
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It was a testimonial to his personality that he could take his roots with him without making others feel left out.
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They tried to see she didn't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive.
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Those waiting for Washington to successfully deal with these issues will be left out in the cold.
be/feel like a new man/woman
be/feel obligated
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A.. No, but they usually do because they feel obligated to follow the wishes of the caucus-goers.
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Do not feel obligated to drive faster than is comfortable for you just because others do.
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Doing something you feel obligated to do is not bad.
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I don't know how she put up with it but she said she felt obligated .
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You can make people follow you by scaring them, and you can make people follow by having them feel obligated .
be/feel on top of the world
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In the spring of 1995, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world .
be/feel ready for sth
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Crews had to be ready for hostile fire from the ground.
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He seems to be ready for the more burdensome necessities of the job.
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I think he will be ready for a place in the 2003 World Cup... perhaps.
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It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
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Manufacture is now proceeding and the equipment will be ready for installation on Reactor 2 in May 1993.
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Novel No. 80 should be ready for publication soon.
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Pitching coach Dave Wallace said that Radinsky still has time to be ready for the season opener.
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The financial statement will be ready for the A.G.M. The donations from the general public show a decrease on previous years.
be/feel sorry for sb
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For a minute, she felt sorry for the girl.
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I just feel sorry for the ones who didn't make the team.
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A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning.
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He feels sorry for himself, torn between two jealousies.
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Nobody felt sorry for my sister.
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One feels sorry for the little ones in some circumstances and they nearly become like children - but not quite.
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They'd be sorry for me, they'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist.
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Watching him shuffle off to the press room, I felt sorry for poor Feels.
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Yet he made her feel sorry for Miss Lavant, a woman she'd hardly thought about before.
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Your problem is that every time a relationship goes bad, you feel sorry for yourself and become more of a loner.
be/feel trapped
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At 31, Peggy feels trapped in a boring job.
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I felt trapped inside this person that was taking up more and more room.
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If they delayed any longer they'd be trapped .
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It means you could be trapped in the flat if fire breaks out.
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Many employees in bureaucratic governments feel trapped .
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She wanted to be gone, away from this turmoil of passion, and yet she felt trapped by a sensuality undreamed of.
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Someday he will probably be trapped .
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They would be trapped in sun and light enough crossing the great unwinking glare and oven breath on their journey home.
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Without it, I fear, I could be trapped in Tuzla.
be/feel/look like your old self
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After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
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Aren't you cold ?
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Come inside before you get cold .
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But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
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He was getting cold , too.
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It was getting cold in the room.
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My chips will be cold by now.
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She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
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She was afraid his skin would be cold .
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Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold .
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Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/feel/seem etc disposed to do sth
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Congress has had a torrent of learned advice on this amendment, none of which it seems disposed to listen to.
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Ernest Conway had never felt disposed to adopt a conventional, benign, grandfatherly role.
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Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.
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Headteachers say governors come to school on special occasions but don't seem disposed to become involved more routinely in school affairs.
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James didn't seem disposed to take the hint.
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Seb's father was a large, comfortable-looking man who did not seem disposed to make a fuss.
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The brothers exchanged glances, neither saying a word, though they seemed disposed to.
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The very houses seemed disposed to pack up and take trips.
cop a feel
feel bad
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I feel bad about not going to Debbie's party, but I've just got too much to do.
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I feel bad about what I said. Things haven't been easy for either of us.
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I felt bad about not being able to come last night.
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I should have told Helen I was sorry. I feel really bad that I didn't.
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We had a long talk about it afterwards and I know she felt bad .
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Being with the nuns only made it feel worse .
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Continually feeling bad about how your body looks limits your self-esteem, which eventually undercuts your immune power.
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Do I feel bad , exploited, put down?
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I felt bad about David, whose roots are in labor.
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It's very ... I felt bad afterwards.
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That makes me feel bad because I don't want to go anywhere else.
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Turning the mirror over, I feel worse than before.
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Whenever I go to London I feel bad for Georgie.
feel boxed in
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Married for only six months, Dawn already felt boxed in.
feel cheated
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Many of the workers feel cheated by not getting their bonuses.
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But they do, and then feel cheated .
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Fear of litigation by shareholders who felt cheated quickly established this practice after some early abuses.
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If you do, your readers are likely to feel cheated .
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It revealed Docherty to be a witty, compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past.
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Magnanimously, I jumped in and offered to pay the discount difference so that my dining friend would not feel cheated .
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Nor is she the only one who feels cheated by Death Row.
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Sherman was relieved for a moment, but then he felt cheated .
feel free
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But she tells me she still does not feel free .
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Help him or her feel free to talk.
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How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life?
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I felt free in a new way.
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If not, feel free to discard them and draw your own.
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If you should wish to look inside the packet, before sending it, feel free to do so.
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So he felt free to go for broke.
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So how is it they feel free to ask those parallel questions of other people?
feel like/turn to jelly
feel lousy
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He had himself escaped, but, he said matter-of-factly, he had always felt lousy about the others.
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I feel lousy when I have some terrific game to review and there's no space on my hard drive for it.
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I was prepared to feel lousy and to continue to feel lousy.
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One time after a close loss, I told him I felt lousy and I didn't want to go shake hands.
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Will you spend the rest of the day feeling lousy ?
feel peculiar/come over all peculiar
feel rotten
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I've felt rotten all day.
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If Rosa Lee felt like having a good time, or felt rotten , she would get high.
feel rough
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Don't get up if you're feeling rough - I'll bring you some breakfast in bed.
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Liz said she was feeling pretty rough yesterday -- I don't think she'll come to work today.
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A worn braid feels rough and is best cut away and the line joined by a blood knot.
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The altitude had suddenly hit her and she was feeling rough .
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The skin feels rough and dry like the bark of trees.
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We say this as readily as we say that they taste sweet, feel rough , or look red.
feel sick
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He developed a severe headache and felt very sick by day three.
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I felt sick after I ate all that candy.
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I had no urge to smoke when I was pregnant. It made me feel sick to my stomach.
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If you feel sick , there's the bowl, okay?
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We'd only been in the car two minutes when David said he felt sick .
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When I was pregnant, the smell of coffee made me feel sick to my stomach.
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He felt good and then felt sick about the way he had pissed him off on the phone like that.
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He is talking directly to us and we do feel sick .
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I feel sick , and we still have a few minutes left.
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I looked at the picture and felt sick .
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It smears my file, and I feel sick every time I look at it.
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Sometimes after I watch a match, I feel sick because of it.
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We crossed the street, I felt sick .
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When he heard the girls were dead he felt sick .
feel strange
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I left the debate feeling strange - I didn't know what to believe.
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But after one particularly long session of playing on it he began to feel strange .
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He says that he felt strange and fell on to the floor.
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I was tired and felt strange and lost in a faraway, disgusting place.
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It felt strange to be in possession of two hats.
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It felt strange to be in the schoolhouse at night.
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It must have felt strange for her not to head directly for the Loreto Convent at Entally.
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One reason Muriel felt strange in Atchison was that she had to be on her best behavior for her grandparents.
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When I first went in, it felt strange .
feel suffocated
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I felt suffocated living in the city.
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Although the gear had no contact with any of my breathing apparatus, I felt suffocated .
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His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere ... Her heart tripped unevenly, and she felt suffocated .
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I felt suffocated and found it physically very difficult to breathe.
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I make you feel suffocated , do I, with my loving?
feel your gorge rise
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Wendy and I felt our gorge rise, and simply could not eat.
feel/be beholden to sb
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Ludwig is beholden to the President, who gave him his job.
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I don't like to be beholden to anybody, I like to be my own boss.
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There was no longer any need for her to be beholden to Fen Marshall.
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Yet most judges I know are beholden to Power-by that I mean unalterably pledged to the dominant force of the system.
feel/be lost
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I'd be lost without all your help.
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Energy expressed in a passive way is lost for ever.
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I walked on and yet it was all new and different and I realized I was lost again.
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I was lost in a little ocean of fog.
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Many pilots will drift into other careers and be lost to the industry for good.
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Some will revel in having more time for themselves; others will feel lost .
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Sometimes, valuable time can be lost .
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The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost .
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To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
feel/be put out
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A very limited edition single was put out by Red Rhino, to promote the album it was actually unable to release.
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Could they not be put out to stud?
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I think it's understandable if Trevor was put out by this favoured treatment Sinatra got.
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Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day.
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That team was nowhere near as good as the sides Leeds are putting out now.
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The match was put out for new offers and Kasparov is due to make an announcement in London on March 22.
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There was no trust and everybody was putting out fires.
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When you are reacting, you are putting out fires.
feel/know sth in your bones
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I know nothing's ever going to happen - I can feel it in my bones .
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And he was innocent of murder; she felt it in her bones .
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He could feel it in his bones , and he knew he could trust the feeling.
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He felt sure in his bones that their man would try something tonight.
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I can feel it in my bones .
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She could feel it in her bones .
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Something was very wrong, she could feel it in her bones , but what was it?
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The fog horn started booming, a deep, thrilling vibration that Madame Astarti could feel resonate in her bones .
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
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He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
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In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
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I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
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And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
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Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit .
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Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
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I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit .
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It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit .
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The school made you feel like shit .
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We really do look like shit .
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You looked like shit the other night.
have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration
have a vague idea/feeling/recollection etc (that)
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I can remember nothing of them, but I have a vague feeling of having been well cared for.
look/feel awful
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You look awful - what's wrong?
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Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
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For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful .
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He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful .
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I felt awful , ill, all beaten up.
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In fact she felt awful , nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
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Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful , stunk and tasted lousy?
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The next morning I felt awful .
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Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful .
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
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Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly .
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If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
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Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
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She was sober now but she felt ghastly .
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They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
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A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
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Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
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Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
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It makes him feel small and worthless.
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No to make me look small , that's her object!
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Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
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She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
make sb feel at home
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He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home .
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It is our duty to make them feel at home here.
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Or some chum of Matt's put it there to make him feel at home .
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The g was less, and that made me feel at home .
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Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome, for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home .
make your presence felt
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Bruce wasted little time making his presence felt by scoring in the first ten minutes of the game.
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A sense of urgency begins to make its presence felt.
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After two miles of road, and maybe the first blisters and unknown muscles making their presence felt, came the test!
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But Kiker quickly made his presence felt.
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Eva was more used to making her presence felt.
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In music, art, architecture, and so on, they make their presence felt.
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She was a very pretty girl and made her presence felt almost at once.
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Some ant cuckoo females make their presence felt in more dramatic fashion.
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There were also other things moving around and making their presence felt.
not be/feel themselves
not be/feel/seem herself
not be/feel/seem himself
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He had not felt himself a part of what governments decided.
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He had not felt himself bound by their rules - basically, he hadn't felt himself.
not feel/be myself
not seem/be/feel yourself
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
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As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
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From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
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In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
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It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
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There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
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These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
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To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
sinking feeling
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And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.
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And so we got on that old boat, and I had the worst sinking feeling.
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But the sight of pink carpe: and pink walls gave him a distinct sinking feeling.
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It was enough to give serious journalists a sinking feeling.
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People who lived through the Clinton impeachment are entitled to get a sinking feeling.
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Then, with a sinking feeling, I went to the caravan.
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Titanic job with a sinking feeling It's all in the red bag.
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With a sinking feeling, Katherine rearranged the items in her satchel.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I love the feel of leather.
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The car has a sporty feel to it.
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The movie has the feel of a big summer hit.
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The seats look good and have a sturdy feel .
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There was nothing Lucy liked more than the feel of fur against her skin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It has a smooth, soft feel to the skin, is fully breathable, windproof and easy care.
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Mostly through o-j-t, trial and error, gut feel , and mistakes.
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One of the rooms in Sivitsa's school has a science-fiction feel .
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She is a born golfer and one who, like Laura Davies, plays almost entirely by feel .
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The heavy feel is produced by the thickened rim.
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The keyboard had a mushy feel , which is characteristic of Toshibas.