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I felt as if a bright light were shining in my eyes and a football were in my throat.

Maybe it was the Champagne from an earlier toast, but I suddenly felt as if this woman were family, perhaps a long-lost aunt.

Was it a call from God? I felt as if I was under a terrible spell, and I trembled, afraid that I might not be able to escape.

He felt as if he were not wholly useless -- indeed, in such a stress of weather, quite worth while about the house.

After two days and nights, I felt as if I had lived there for a year.

In the summer holiday , my parents asked me to stay at home , and I felt as if I was a bird shut up in the birdcage.

Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

Yes, I had had fun. Yes, I felt as if I had grown a little closer to my boys.

I walked around the tomb, spreading petals to every corner of it. I felt as if I could see Mahatma Gandhi's unyielding image and clear eyes.

When Washington consented to act as commander-in-chief, it was felt as if the strength of the American forces had been more than doubled.

Shouting in his abandon, he felt as if he had dissolved into the hubbub, with the surface of the river to be swept through the long gorge.

Hearing all those nice words people were saying of him, he felt as if he were treading on air.

For the next two days the city felt as if it were under siege. Rocks and dust bins blocked many of the roads.

hehe, God, I felt as if I was watching my feet turning into a face---a beautiful face smiling splendidly.

At this point of my life I felt as if I had nothing left to prove (in the field of RTS games) to myself or to anyone else.

The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion.

She felt as if she were in a beautiful dream, intoxicated with happiness. Oh, how long she had been yearning for such a moment!

It really felt as if some supernatural entity had entered his mind, reorganizing everything and lifting him to some higher realm.

As the elevator doors opened, Jeff felt as if he were in another country.

She felt as if every drop of emotion had been squeezed out of her.

We had an enjoyable conversation that day, and I felt as if we were old friends rather than two people who had just met.

I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams.

He said he felt as if he had seen God, and I still envy him this experience.

The sky was full of stars dancing and twinkling. They were so bright and so close that Jeremy felt as if he could reach up and grab one.

I wasn't sure if I could face the Millers, but I felt as if I needed to say something.

There were little hollows where you felt as if you were bathing in a pool of liquid gold.

I knew I had untapped potential, but I always felt as if I was floundering.

A few months ago a senior European central banker confessed that policymakers felt as if they were fighting a financial war.

I felt as if the whole earth and sky were mine and I had stepped outside my usual self into another world.

It felt as if everyone was getting away, and I decided to join them.

And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed, you felt as if you just woke up.

Now, I felt as if I was reliving that moment, yet I no longer felt alone and lonely since I had got so many friends.

I began to fear she felt as if stripped of clothes, exposed to the air.

Obi-Wan felt as if his throat had been squeezed. His feet were planted on the floor, or else he could have sworn that he staggered.

by the time i got to the end of our block, my legs had turned to stone. and i felt as if somebody had lit a campfire in my chest!

n He felt as if he must shout and sing, he seemed to hear about him the rustle of unceasing and innumerable wings.

My face felt as if it had been splashed with hot pink paint.

I felt as if I were in possession of a major discovery that would enable me to fulfill my fantasy of becoming an important philosopher.

Zhang Fang gritted his teeth and wanted throw himself at her. But at this moment he felt as if he had no strength left in him.

Having been elected chairman, he felt as if he were on the top of the world.

Giovanni felt as if he were talking to a very small child.

Besides, she was exhausted and felt as if she could sleep for a while.

I began to feel overwhelmed by work; I felt as if I wasn't able to do it.

Yet when a close friend in Madrid managed to land a table, I felt as if I had won the lottery.

When the movie star shook hands with him, he felt as if he were walking on air.

I felt as if my energy was being used to promote proper bodily functions, instead of being suppressed by my digestive system.

I suddenly felt as if we had been on a date , for he was just flirting with me.

For a moment it felt as if I had entered a Catholic cathedral.

He felt as if he was surrounded by men of a different mind and purpose.

Sometimes I couldn't bear to be in Shane's room. I felt as if I were going to explode or go insane.

often felt as if she were slightly lost, floating through a miasma of self-doubt.

Still, his throat felt as if he'd swallowed the rock in his hand. Because the whisper came again, low, personal, and husked with menace.

He almost wished he was back there again--here in this pleasant scene he felt as if he were wholly free.

The deal was eventually completed, but Mr. Troutwine still felt as if he had been snubbed.

Mounted on the dragon's back, she oft felt as if she were learning to ride all over again.

I felt as if my mind was being whipped, as if a ghost had commandeered my pen and was writing to redress the injustices it had suffered.

"We both felt as if I'd never been away, " she says.

I felt as if it must be a fine thing to live in the country where there was such comfort and such luxury as this.

He felt as if he would faint from exhaustion.

car door, he felt as if he were dropping into a hole.

At the airport, he found 'almost everybody' shunned and laughed at him secretly. 'I felt as if I had nothing on, ' he wrote.

Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods.

It felt as if he had only just lain down, but the room was hot and stuffy with the bright warmth of the sun.

Her muscles ached, and she felt as if she had the beginnings of a fever.

As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay.

I felt as if I had stepped into an avantgarde theatre production.

It felt as if I was running from something for so long and at such a furious pace, I didn't know another way to operate.

How come he felt as if something had gone wrong, what specific, he did not want, he just want to put on and the baby out.

And when she reached me, I felt as if I had been physically punched in the chest.

He felt as if he had been there before.

As I was washing my feet, I let my mind wander. I felt as if I was on a vast desert.

Poland was suddenly unreachable, and I felt as if I were being taken out of life itself.

He suffered dryness and tiredness. He felt as if his dry skin would split. Finally at dawn next day, he reached the top of the first dune.

"Oh, can Pa have lost his mind? " thought Scarlett, and her throbbing head felt as if it would crack with this added strain.

Ella felt as if she had been delivered a direct blow.

"I felt as if I had been struck with a physical blow, " Churchill wrote. He said he was overpowered by a sense of deep and permanent loss.

Penfield was surprised that the patient felt as if she were at the concert while also knowing that she was in the operating room.

I felt as if I were waiting for the last bus which never would come.

Carrie felt as if unable to endure such a life.

The buildings are surrounded by grass and trees, so I felt as if I had walked into a medieval castle.

When it reached mine, I heard cacophonous music like a calliope and felt as if Roman candles had been lighted inside my skull.

Orwell complained that when working as a plongeur he felt as if his back were broken and his head "filled with hot cinders" .

as HAROLD took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okey.

Somehow I felt as if I had been cheated.

I moved to my high bar routine and for whatever reason, I suddenly felt as if I could accomplish anything.

The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.

I felt as if she challenged him to run away.

"Oh, no! " Les felt as if the air had thickened, pressing like pillows in his face.

I felt as if I had been sat on by someone heavy for a long time and emerged crushed in spirit and, oddly, in body too.

It felt as if I had joined the elite group that lives by different rules to ordinary folk.

News of his father's death depressed Mr. Zhou; he felt as if a heavy weight had been placed on his spirit.

I felt as if we had been invited to the Mansion House by one who did not know the Lord Mayor himself.

I felt as if I were at the top of the world.

In his 1997 autobiography he confessed that at the time of his leaving of Liverpool he had felt as if his head would explode.

She felt as if she had come to a place that she had always known and deeply desired.

Carrie felt as if some great tide had rolled between them.

For the next two days the city felt as if it were under siege.

Nietzsche extolled Wagner to his friends, saying that in his presence he felt as if in the presence of the divine.

I felt as if my heart was being whipped, I also felt as if a ghost was borrowing my pen to redress the injustice it had suffered.

Holding one of her fascicles while standing in her bedroom, I felt as if I had in some small way been a part of her creative process.

But because I always want to be honest and I felt as if I had nothing to hide, I wanted to be open about it.

Mayo came here on impulse without a single thought about what would happen. She felt as if her chest was being crushed by helplessness.

The little mermaid kissed his hand, and felt as if her heart were already broken.

When he came into their room, occupied territory so recently reclaimed from Karen and Tilly, Henry felt as if another enemy had encamped.

Meaning : He seemed to fall into a sleep like condition. Suddenly he felt as if he were sinking in a violent ocean.

Her head felt as if it would burst.

Jeff felt as if the bottom of his stomach had fallen out.

She felt as if her soul were going to be desecrated by him in his present mood.

I remember that the last time I ate chicken it just felt so uncomfortable that I almost felt as if it were poison.

It so altered her appearance that she felt as if she was Queen Elizabeth II.

As I stood underneath the tepid jet, watching the dirty brown water disappear down the plug, it felt as if each drop was sent from heaven.

At times like this, seeing the eyes on my back, it felt as if the ring were pulsing like a neon sign: Look at me, look at me.

Like a magician's assistant, Polina felt as if she had been split in two.

Each time I went to breakfast at the Sheraton Four Points in Shenzhen, I felt as if I were in a movie.

In such a beautiful classroom, you felt as if you were in a fairy tale world. No wonder these children come to school everyday so happily.

The most incredible thing was: on the pitch, it suddenly felt as if we were a mature, grown up team.

She, who has come back from the death still felt as if she was out of herself in spite of the clothes she wore .

She hadn't, done anything or said anything , but she felt as if she had.

After being paid a compliment he felt as if he were walking on air.

My swollen feet felt as if I'd been walking across hot coals.

"That's not the issue, Dad. " I felt as if I were 12 years old, trying to explain why I'd used a crib sheet on a spelling test.

Jeff also felt as if he needed to be acquitted of some crime .

She felt as if she were falling headlong into a pit.

I always felt as if I had to walk on eggshells around him so that I wouldn't hurt his feelings.

Mrs Parley said she felt as if she was in a storm at sea.

The last minutes remaining between him and their meeting felt as if they would never pass.

I felt as if I were flying through mid-air. Suddenly I was afraid and wanted to quit, and my soul came back.

The first time he tasted the fruit, he felt as if he was having a feast for the gods.

He felt as if he were floating in the air.

They were so polite that Little Bear almost felt as if he were among strangers.

They talked and wrestled in the throes of composition, and felt as if something were happening, really happening, really in the void.

I found the rabbit's laughter terrifying. I felt as if Armageddon had come.

But the even while visiting the real American West, Zhang felt as if he'd seen it all before.

The elder mage's touch felt as if he were driving a hot iron into his brain.

He felt as if he almost wished to kill them.

I felt as if the speech was a two-hundred-pound rock I was pushing up a hill.

In the assignment of various sorts of work, none of them felt as if they were being picked on.

there was no money, no money, my mother said it, said it until I felt as if every scrap of food I ate was wrenched off my father's body.

When the earthquake happened, she felt as if she were in a storm at sea.

I felt as if I had lost the most precious thing forever.

As long as globalisation was seen mainly as economic, Europeans felt as if everyone could win from it, argued Mr Van Rompuy.

waltzed me round so delicately I felt as if I was floating on air.

"We felt as if 400 years of history was stolen, " Kenninji official Zenyu Asano said.

From China to Iran we felt as if we were in a cavalcade of very special cars.

Always felt as if something had to separate us, our proximity, but the heart very much.

Mrs Parley said she felt as if they were in a storm at sea.

It felt as if this was what I was here to do.

Breathing it, Robert felt as if he was set free from a cage.

He felt as if he were returning from a long visit.

I felt as if I were drowning in sleep.

At times, I felt as if I was being stifled.

I felt as if relieved a heavy load as a leader of group.

I felt as if I were saying goodbye.

Until the Wenchuan earthquake, felt as if his attitude changed.

it felt as if all of my internal organs were swelling and pushing through my rib cage.

Maybe everyone else felt as if they were sharing in my sister and new 's happiness and not somehow intruding on it.

I was extremely frightened and it felt as if I was in mortal danger.

She felt as if she had been in this dark, sweating place all her life.

I felt as if I'd lost the key to my father's heart, and he died before I could find it again.

When I sweated, it felt as if acid was poured all over me.

I felt as if I was the only one in the room who didn't have a clue.

He repented and felt as if he had done ill.

I felt as if I was being watched.

He was right, but I still felt as if I'd lost a friend.

After my granny died, I felt as if something were missing in my life.

He sometimes felt as if the family's bolt was shot, their possessive instinct dying out.

I felt as if I had been in a different world.

She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state.

I felt as if he'd never know fatigue.

I felt as if a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

I felt as if my mouth was about to catch fire.

I felt as if the ground were slipping beneath my feet.

She felt as if her head were splitting.

It felt as if we had come a very long way, very quickly.

The lady felt as if she lost something.

Tibet is really the world's last Shangri-La, and when I came here, I felt as if I had been in a different world.

Nell felt as if her heart would break when she saw them meet.

She felt as if her head were bursting.

She felt as if she were going to die.

We felt as if we were at the end of the world.

I felt as if I became a bird.

She felt as if she lost something.

She felt as if hard thoughts were unjust.

She felt as if she wasin a storm at sea.

They felt as if they had logged in enough time.

And then I felt as if a big stone had been lifted from my shoulders.

However, when I gazed at that starry mountain I felt as if those countless lights were whispering with each other.

One caller said they felt as if a lost friend had returned home.

He felt as if a shell would swallow all of them.

It felt as IF we had traveled from nadir to zenith.

We felt as if we had entered amother world full of beauty, peaeefulness and loveliness.

At that time I, felt as if a knife were piercing heart, the whole body gushed out an ache taste, thought: Rain!

At that moment, I felt as if we had had one common soul.

After I got across the road , I felt as if I was kind of disappearing

Mrs Parley said she felt as if she was in a storm at sea. She tried hard to

I felt AS if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy

I felt as if I suddenly

I felt as if my vitreous shoes were completely broken

And my felt as if a wrong path lamb suddenly at this quarter,