I groped for the light switch but instead felt a warm furry thing on my hand.
Postwar fashion, which essentially meant French fashion, assumed an ultra-sophisticated, imperious look that demanded an expressive type of model, one who didn't shrink from the boned corsets and satin folds but instead felt a heightened sense of femininity — arching her narrow back, extending her long, alabaster neck.
Now I don't cringe when I anticipate a flap occurring between us, but instead feel a sense of curiosity and interest, perhaps even a touch of excitement.
"She didn't simply dump a tranche of information but instead felt compelled, as a matter of necessity, to leak one particular document as evidence of a deep corruption that was likely to lead the world into an illegal war.
Bennetto says that both he and McLeish were worried that Armfield would turn "relatively simply staged, roughly hewn" musical into "the Amadeus version" without the original show's sense of fun, but instead felt it became a "more accomplished, buffed-up version of the original show".
He closed his eyes and waited and was not at peace at all but instead felt the beginnings of a terrible dread welling up inside him, and if that dread kept growing at the current rate, he realized in a flash of insight, there was a name for the place he would be then, and it was Hell.
Similarly, if you were to shake a robot's hand while expecting a human touch, but instead felt cold rubber, you would be caught of guard.
Shen said he was not angry with Anthony, but instead felt bad for him.
Employees didn't fear their leaders, but instead felt empowered and supported.
After 10 days in India and 27 years of working on myself, I realized it is not a conflict between my heart, soul and mind anymore, but instead feels like a machine that sometimes just needs a little more oil.
It aims for the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland but instead feels like an embarrassing uncle trying to talk to a child..
