Example sentences of "he have a sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 2 | And he has a sense for it , as the cleanly know by instinct how to avoid filth . ’ |
| 3 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 4 | As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation . |
| 5 | Meryl wondered if he had a sense of humour , although now was n't the time to find out . |
| 6 | Did n't think he had a sense of humour in him . ’ |
| 7 | No notice should be taken of the frequently reiterated statement that Wordsworth lacked humour : of course he had a sense of humour — ‘ sly humour ’ , Hazlitt called it in 1825 , and added , ‘ he has a peculiar sweetness in his smile ’ . |
| 8 | He had a sense of inadequacy and at one point almost applied to colleges in order to get some qualifications . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had a sense that he would not survive its completion . |
| 10 | He had a sense that she was unwilling to meet his eyes . |
| 11 | He had a sense of humour . |
| 12 | Drawing on a Stoic concept of seeds , which he applied even to the origin of Adam and Eve , he had a sense of natural order that could hardly be considered hostile to further inquiry . |
| 13 | He had a sense of fun and enjoyed the usual simple pleasures of life : his family , his home , his garden and the world of nature . |
| 14 | He had a sense of humour about him and , I suppose , a kind of lesser quirkiness that made him very natural in the part . |
| 15 | He had a sense of subterfuge that was often nearly paralysing . |
| 16 | He stared at those closest him , trying to make some sense of the complex chains of symbols , then shrugged ; it was an alien language , all this , yet he had a sense that these shapes — the spirals and branching trees , the clusters and irregular pyramids-had something to do with the complex chemistry of the human body . |
| 17 | Waller was argumentative , opinionated , and sometimes outspoken , but he had a sense of humour ( ‘ I am the Wallerian degeneration ’ in reference to his father 's eponymous discovery ) and he retained an unworldly delight in science throughout his life . |
| 18 | And he had a sense of gloom about the findings of the inquest . |
| 19 | He also cared deeply for his sister , and their afternoon together had proved he had a sense of humour and could be a considerate and friendly companion . |
| 20 | He had a sense of humour . ’ , |
| 21 | He had a sense of humour , did Walter , so it never got out of proportion . ’ |
| 22 | He had a sense of the land — the weather . |