Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had a vague sense that someone was making a film of us making the film ! ) |
| 2 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 3 | You can feel the same oppressive sense of place at Culloden , where great numbers of Scots were massacred , and I felt a similar sense of sadness and grief as I walked through Glencoe where the Macdonalds were treacherously murdered by the Campbells . |
| 4 | The June warmth has become slightly oppressive and I feel a continuing sense of strangeness , of standing slightly outside myself . |
| 5 | The best Monday shows happen when Shaun and Bez interact , and you get a real sense of their personalities . |
| 6 | A muscle twitched in his cheek , and she felt a strange sense of regret . |
| 7 | No clue , that was , other than what her heart told her , and as Tom entered the room once more , his eyes coming straight to meet her own , her spirits lifted again and she felt a mysterious sense of rightness about it all . |
| 8 | The space beside her was empty , and she felt a keen sense of loss that was instantly alleviated when the door opened and Michele came in , carrying a breakfast-tray . |
| 9 | The slight movements from the recovery cage brought her back to the present and she felt a great sense of relief as she watched the gradual return to consciousness of her patient . |
| 10 | Life seemed suspended and she had a disquieting sense of being quite alone . |
| 11 | And she had an incoherent sense that he and she together were being pushed in squares of black-and-white across the game board , and she did n't want to comply with the games masters by speaking aloud , let alone complaining , of the antagonisms they orchestrated . |
| 12 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 13 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 14 | And they have a real sense of being more credible . |
| 15 | He was the kind of manager you could approach without hesitation and he had a sharp sense of humour . |
| 16 | His brilliance was carried lightly , and he possessed a wry sense of humour . |
| 17 | Ken Branagh is a fascinating man and he has an amazing sense of duty to other people , but I just do n't have his kind of energy . |
| 18 | We got on very well and he has an excellent sense of humour . ’ |
| 19 | In this region , it was an involuntary experience , another kind of crusading invasion , and it involved a deep sense of despair and humiliation . |