Example sentences of "he have a [adj] sense of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a classic sense of gastronomic order . |
| 2 | He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused . |
| 3 | He has a flawless sense of colour and form , and realises an ideal balance between formal clipped structure and drifting floral ephemera , springing delicious surprises upon the enchanted visitor . |
| 4 | Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods . |
| 5 | He has a wry sense of humour and an uncompromising disposition , particularly when it comes to talking about deeds of valour . |
| 6 | He has a fine sense of humour , and he shows strong leadership qualities . |
| 7 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 8 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 9 | He had a terrible sense of direction , always getting left , right , up , down , forwards and backwards mixed up . |
| 10 | Thank goodness , though that for all he was n't so free with his smiles he had a terrific sense of humour and had not held against her the blunt , not to say impolite way she 'd asked if he was prepared to give her an interview . |
| 11 | He was the kind of manager you could approach without hesitation and he had a sharp sense of humour . |
| 12 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 13 | He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul . |
| 14 | He had a rotten sense of humour . |
| 15 | He had a pious sense of his own importance and had always thought all these acts were directed at him , from which he had only escaped by good luck . |
| 16 | He had a fine sense of theatrical timing , which helped in publicizing his ventures . |
| 17 | He had a quick sense of humour , with a Victorian weakness for outrageous puns , little of which shows in his mature poetry except in his play with language . |