Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] any 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh fuck , am I making any sense ? |
| 4 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 5 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I had any sense , I 'd dump you overboard , ’ he growled . |
| 7 | If I had any sense at all , I would have left then . |
| 8 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you make any sense of it , Ranulf ? ’ |
| 12 | Do n't you have any sense ? ’ |
| 13 | Do you have any sense in talking to schools , for example , that parents were a nuisance , Michael ? |
| 14 | She lost any sense of time , knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing . |
| 15 | You 'll get off , if you 've any sense ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If you 've any sense you 'll grab a pair of skis and do the same . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " If you had any sense you 'd forget him , but eat your heart out if you want to . |
| 20 | If you had any sense at all you would start back now before they come looking for us . ’ |
| 21 | If you have any sense you 'll let me pay you what Crevecoeur cost you now and let hir come back with us . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Not if you have any sense , duckie , ’ shouted a stout Northern female bystander to much laughter . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | I think people , if they have any sense , will work shorter hours . |
| 27 | As Europe moves to become a single market , does it make any sense that Britain should be closing coal mines which are producing coal far cheaper than those in west Germany ? |
| 28 | In view of the events surrounding the Haitian boat people who attempted to enter the United States , does it make any sense for that country to continue opposing the implementation of the common action programme ? |
| 29 | Does it make any sense to encourage Western style ‘ social security ’ in the Indian context where only a small proportion of the population is currently covered ? |
| 30 | does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something . |