Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] 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 | I want that sense of fairness and justice to be written into the local government finance legislation . |
| 4 | Ca n't someone bring some sense into this ridiculous situation before the governors who took up the challenge after the Government 's much-advertised campaign to persuade people to do the work , and those who served faithfully for many long years , resign en masse ? |
| 5 | ‘ I hope common sense will prevail on the issue of flirting , ’ she wrote . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 8 | I lost all sense of time . |
| 9 | I lost all sense of direction getting here . ’ |
| 10 | I think common sense and sensibility will eventually shine through . |
| 11 | Oh fuck , am I making any sense ? |
| 12 | The then of course when the wartime came along , the last war , I did n't , I did n't used to rush away , I , I had that sense to not just , to rush on to the with the rest of them , so I joined the fire brigade , the regular fire brigade . |
| 13 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 14 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I had any sense , I 'd dump you overboard , ’ he growled . |
| 16 | If I had any sense at all , I would have left then . |
| 17 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 18 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 19 | I hate to say something I do n't mean , and I had enough sense left to know I might not be prepared to keep my side of the contract tomorrow . |
| 20 | I am sensible , indeed one of my first bosses at Js remarked that although I am not qualified in anything , I had common sense which was worth a great deal more to him . |
| 21 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 23 | His programme includes hourly cold showers , a diet of raw cabbage and , on match days , he is suspended from the balcony by his feet , whilst I beat some sense into him with a copy of the ‘ Sporting Mauve ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Until the 1983–84 submission to the CNAA ( discussed below ) , for example , several new areas felt constrained and unconvinced by aspects of the operation ( especially timetabling ) which made perfect sense for a full-time course in science but considerably less for other kinds of demands . |
| 26 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 27 | What he can not do , of course , is articulate clearly his true reasons of state , reasons which make perfect sense in an administration context and obey all the rules of realpolitik , including the rule that you should have God on your side . |
| 28 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 29 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 30 | The first fortnight was plagued by a stiffness which undermined any sense of confidence . |