Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Where would I be without you to knock some sense into my thick head ? ’ he said tenderly . |
| 4 | How can we make some sense of it ? |
| 5 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 6 | How much longer before they get some sense into them ? |
| 7 | In contrast with their younger counterparts , some of whom at least could hope realistically for the possibility of promotion , the older field men have little ambition , though they retain some sense of mission . |
| 8 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 9 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 10 | It makes some sense to me , and clearly to some of the audience here tonight . |
| 11 | It makes some sense to argue that an animal needs less computing power to find leaves , which are abundant all around , than to find fruit , which may have to be searched for , or to catch insects , which take active steps to get away . |
| 12 | The relatives of our electively ventilated organ donors do not feel that we act improperly ; rather , they all consider that the process of organ donation allows them to make some sense of an otherwise inexplicable loss . |