Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I want that sense of fairness and justice to be written into the local government finance legislation . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope common sense will prevail on the issue of flirting , ’ she wrote . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I lost all sense of time . |
| 7 | I lost all sense of direction getting here . ’ |
| 8 | I think common sense and sensibility will eventually shine through . |
| 9 | Oh fuck , am I making any sense ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 12 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If I had any sense , I 'd dump you overboard , ’ he growled . |
| 14 | If I had any sense at all , I would have left then . |
| 15 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 16 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you make any sense of it , Ranulf ? ’ |
| 25 | Therefore I know that it is not a matter of you using good sense in rejecting advances from young men because you would soon be parted from them . |
| 26 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 27 | It is n't used for power , it is used for purity and clarity , and that 's how you create that sense of space . |
| 28 | She 'd pushed her bicycle most of the way before she collected enough sense to get on and ride it . |
| 29 | You get more sense out of a virtually , than what you get out of that ! |
| 30 | You talk more sense than all those psychiatrists put together . ’ |