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Example sentences for "became conscious"

  • Ida, watching him, became conscious of a sense of repulsion and indignation.

  • It seemed to become her wonderfully, and he became conscious of a faint embarrassment.

  • Towards the end of the 'thirties he became conscious of a growing impulse towards more positive views.

  • He had hardly said it than he became conscious of his rudeness; but, instead of making him more restrained, it only excited him the more.

  • And for the first time Christophe became conscious of his destiny, which was to carry through the hostile peoples, like an artery, all the forces of life of the two sides of the river.

  • It was only rarely that these artists became conscious of the nature of their efforts, and could join forces to a common and a given end.

  • Now, calm and freed of that haunting jar of descent, I became conscious that a sound, that I had at first taken for the rush of my own arteries, had an origin apart from us.

  • As I approached the opening in the brambles I became conscious of a certain relief.

  • He kept on talking for some time until he became conscious of an undue earnestness in his avowals.

  • As he did so he became conscious of a subtle perfume, and it moved him horribly, as some men die without being moved.

  • Dick, fighting with his comrades on the north, knew little of what was passing on the peninsula in the south, but he became conscious after a while that the appalling fury of the battle around him was diminishing.

  • It was dark in the big hall, but as he stood there, listening, he became conscious of a light.

  • He became conscious after a while of a growing weakness, but he had recalled all the powers of his will and it was triumphant over his body.

  • He studied in a more scientific spirit the details of the door, with its rusty bolts and hinges, when he became conscious of something very near him--indeed, nearly above his head.

  • But he became conscious of Fancy's charm, although he would have called it by another name.

  • The Squire, upright in his comfortable chair, became conscious of the man's grip upon everybody present, gentle and simple.

  • Fancy, outwardly calm, presenting the impassive mask of the well-trained servant, became conscious of tingling and throbbing pulses.

  • He became conscious of sympathising generously with all men not thus equipped.

  • With the work done he became conscious of a feeling of disassociation from the surroundings in which he had so long been at home.

  • When he noted this he became conscious of his hunger.

  • I seemed to have been asleep but a few minutes, when I became conscious of an odour of burning pine; then through my still-closed eyelids I perceived that the hut was lighted up.

  • I must have flushed up to my forehead, for I became conscious that in my Aunt Bridget's eyes there had been a kind of indecency in my conduct.

  • But little by little I became conscious of a certain commerce between her and my husband in which I had no part.

  • Nevertheless as I sat holding my telegraph-form I became conscious of somebody who was moving about me.

  • He became conscious of the fact that Gurdon was regarding him with a polite, yet none the less critical, wonder.

  • As a rule, Venner was not a man who was troubled much with nerves, though he became conscious of the fact that he possessed them to-night.

  • Then he became conscious of the fact that Zary's great luminous eyes were bent, full of hate, upon his face.

  • My chest and breathing became inwardly oppressed by some ponderous weight, while I became conscious of some 'presence' behind me, exerting a powerful influence on the forces within.

  • I reached the same conclusion, and had not much more than reached it when I became conscious of being in a room and looking down on a body propped up in bed, which I recognized as my own!

  • I must have been lying like this for a couple of hours when I became conscious of what seemed like a light in the room.

  • Then, perhaps because he was overwrought, he became conscious of an extravagant pride in his friend.

  • It was so dark that he could scarcely distinguish the nearest cottonwood; but though his ears failed to localize any definite sound he became conscious of some danger approaching.

  • While listening to these words I became conscious that I was asleep, and that for some reason it was most important for me to get up at once.

  • And I became conscious of Miss Tevkin's presence by my side Conversation with the poet's daughter was practically monopolized by the misanthropic photographer.

  • At least I distinctly remember the moment when I became conscious of it It was on an afternoon, four days after the Margolises had taken possession of the new place.

  • I still seemed to be congratulating myself upon my indifference to women other than the one who was soon to bear my name, when I became conscious of a mighty interest in this girl.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became bishop; became clear; became customary; became dark; became editor; became emperor; became head; became independent; became interested; became known; became more; became quite; became secretary; became very; because they are spiritually; boiling point; direction opposite; exemption from; given length; main line; maritime warfare; public servants; state church; suit case; universal soul; where was