Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adj] sense " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ But when the pair of youse has got enough sense you can fight them off for me and all the damn priests and nuns they 'll bring along with them . ’ |
| 2 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 3 | ‘ She has lost all sense of time . |
| 4 | ‘ But Eleanor has lost all sense of the present . |
| 5 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 6 | Here , all life is at its lowest ebb and man has lost all sense of direction . |
| 7 | And he exults , like Richard III , in his abilities in deception , which have indeed supplanted his real self : It is difficult for a modern audience , which has lost that sense of reverence attaching to ‘ service ’ that animated Renaissance society , from the glorification of the vita activa down to the duties of bondsmen and tenants , to appreciate fully the shock that these self-revelations would have had . |
| 8 | At first sight this seems to defy common sense , but the point is easily made with reference to whales . |
| 9 | He seems to have little sense of the broader issues involved , political or theological . |
| 10 | ( Mary Magdalen is found to be an altogether more sympathetic role model ; she has a nice plain earthiness which seems to make more sense of our actual lived experience . ) |
| 11 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 12 | The general growth of awareness of environmental problems may have provided a problem-centred focus which helps to overcome any sense of theoretical looseness . |
| 13 | The release of colonic regulatory peptides by bile salts does make physiological sense . |
| 14 | But it does make perfect sense in context . |
| 15 | Headphones listening splits the left/right signals too dramatically and , for most people , fails to provide any sense of space in the frontal ‘ cone ’ . |
| 16 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 17 | Your son 's got more sense than me , look I 've put a coat on I 'm sitting here sweating |
| 18 | He 's got more sense . |
| 19 | If she 's got any sense and if her counsel has briefed her properly , she 'll get out her handkerchief and sob " Oh yes , sir . |
| 20 | ‘ Dead , if he 's got any sense , ’ George snapped . |
| 21 | No er well well if he 's got any sense I I always tell the advertiser I said now the adv I said you as the advertiser have got to keep worrying you may have to chivvy them up . |
| 22 | Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down . |
| 23 | ‘ I only hope he 's had more sense than to leave her money ! |
| 24 | However , the report fails to convey any sense of the complexity and lacunae of research findings and of the difficulties that await those who avail themselves uncritically of them . |
| 25 | Because of this view of persons , the whole concept of marriage being ‘ until death us do part ’ begins to make some sense . |
| 26 | But as long as this incremental approach remains half-hearted , wholesale abandonment of parts of the city begins to make grim sense . |