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