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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He felt his knees becoming weak.
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I felt at that point if I didn't tell her she was going to find out anyway.
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I felt other people felt the same way about silly things.
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In fact, large numbers of voters apparently felt secure enough to stay home on Election Day.
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She disliked her work but felt that it was impossible to give up such success.
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The cover shot nicely evokes the bewilderment felt when climbing in Ordesa.
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They patted her when they felt like it, grasped her hand.
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We felt that the interaction and integration had exceeded our expectations.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hat
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Her head was shrunken under a tight-fitting felt hat .
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His face was round and turnip-like, a soft felt hat crammed on it, and his boots were brown and polished.
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Mrs Kulass put on a ratty fur coat, a shabby felt hat , and put her hands inside an old muff.
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There was one in a loden green suit with a felt hat - in May! - and terrible legs.
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I wore it on cold days with soft leather boots, a mouton coat, and a large brimmed black felt hat .
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She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
pen
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They each had a big rainbow packet of felt pens , and a Dinky car.
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There was a diagram on the screen and a few dried-out felt pens on the wooden ridge under it.
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Drawing with thick felt pens is essential for the presentation to be clear.
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I solved the problem by adapting a red felt pen .
tip
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The selected area of a faced sample or hand specimen must be marked with water insoluble felt tip pen before cutting.
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She presses harder on the felt tip .
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Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.
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The shock of the new is techno-brutalism and the medium is the felt tip .
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At later stages a thick crayon and a large felt tip suited particular areas of marking.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen?
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Mark out brick lines with a felt tip pen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blisters are a sign that moisture has either got below the felt or that the felt was laid on a damp surface.
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In the felt and wooden ornaments we find the recurrent motif of the griffin.
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It has a pretty standard crime-fiction substructure that provides the felt on which the characters shoot their various games of pool.
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The coffin's interior had apparently been lined with thick felt .
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The oven heats the brass molds from which the maroon felt takes its shape.
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Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric: felt , hessian, sacking, lining fabric or printed cotton.