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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] any sense " in BNC.

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1	Nothing made any sense . ’
2	Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all .
3	Nor can I remember any sense of restraint : the landscape belonged to me and I to it , and I was free to explore it and be nurtured by it in a subconscious Wordsworthian sort of way .
4	Oh fuck , am I making any sense ?
5	I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’
6	And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’
7	‘ If I had any sense , I 'd dump you overboard , ’ he growled .
8	If I had any sense at all , I would have left then .
9	‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley .
10	At first I was delighted in the breadth and fullness of her singing , but after a while I missed any sense of Desdemona 's inner vulnerability or much nuance , particularly in her Act 4 scena .
11	The first fortnight was plagued by a stiffness which undermined any sense of confidence .
12	It is the way the subject is exposed to an anonymous gaze that always remains open , which puts any sense of personal identity into question .
13	Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know .
14	‘ Do you make any sense of it , Ranulf ? ’
15	Do n't you have any sense ? ’
16	Do you have any sense in talking to schools , for example , that parents were a nuisance , Michael ?
17	She lost any sense of time , knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing .
18	You 'll get off , if you 've any sense ! ’
19	If you 've any sense you 'll give me a ride to Shipton and put me on a train , then go back to your farm and forget all about me . ’
20	‘ If you 've any sense you 'll grab a pair of skis and do the same .
21	Clare , if she had any sense ( which seemed questionable ) , must realize that a person of his background and way of life would scarcely have remained pure .
22	And I 'd think he 'd repel any true woman , who had any sense . ’
23	" If you had any sense you 'd forget him , but eat your heart out if you want to .
24	If you had any sense at all you would start back now before they come looking for us . ’
25	If you have any sense you 'll let me pay you what Crevecoeur cost you now and let hir come back with us . ’
26	‘ Not if you have any sense , duckie , ’ shouted a stout Northern female bystander to much laughter .
27	But how does one make any sense of Berlin ?
28	It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . "
29	One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things .
30	Thomas Good [ q.v. ] , master of Balliol , thought him ‘ one of the most pious ingenious men that ever I was acquainted with ’ , while to the anonymous friend who wrote a preface to A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation , he was ‘ a man of a cheerful and sprightly Temper … very affable and pleasant in his Conversation ’ , although he was so full of his vision of God 's love and man 's felicity that ‘ those that would converse with him , were forced to endure some discourse upon these subjects , whether they had any sense of Religion , or not . ’