Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] 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 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 4 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I had any sense , I 'd dump you overboard , ’ he growled . |
| 6 | If I had any sense at all , I would have left then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first fortnight was plagued by a stiffness which undermined any sense of confidence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She lost any sense of time , knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And I 'd think he 'd repel any true woman , who had any sense . ’ |
| 13 | " If you had any sense you 'd forget him , but eat your heart out if you want to . |
| 14 | If you had any sense at all you would start back now before they come looking for us . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 18 | None of it made any sense . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 20 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 21 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 22 | If he had any sense he 'd get himself a good lawyer and keep his mouth shut . ’ |
| 23 | Two miles if he had any sense . |
| 24 | ‘ If he had any sense he 'd stay here and keep an eye on his daughter , ’ I quipped back . |
| 25 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 26 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |