Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | My request was dismissed with some amusement by my parents who added that I should have more sense than to believe in all that mumbo-jumbo . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ Shut up , Cal — give me your mum , I 'll get some sense out of her . ’ |
| 3 | Afterwards , George asked me to come down and see if I could talk some sense into you . |
| 4 | I 'd bang some sense into her . |
| 5 | Sift through the letters and bills and whatnot and see if I can make any sense of it all . ’ |
| 6 | Through reflecting on and articulating aspects of my Christian life and discipleship — my hopes and fears , my successes and failures — with someone who will help me look for the Spirit 's direction , my private world becomes shared , I can make more sense of my pilgrimage and continue in it supported . |
| 7 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 8 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
| 9 | It was a whirlwind romance , all right , and nobody could talk any sense into Freda . |
| 10 | And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers . |
| 11 | You must have common sense , that 's most important . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid you 'll get little sense from him either . ’ |
| 13 | After all , she was not now responsible for anyone else , so she could throw good sense and caution to the winds . |
| 14 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd think she 'd have more sense at her age . |
| 16 | ‘ If she were she 'd have more sense and be able to tell the difference between a stuffed dummy and a real man . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ One would have thought she 'd have more sense certainly . |
| 18 | You 'd have one sense |
| 19 | ‘ Nah then , ’ he said finally , ‘ if yer can talk some sense into 'em there 'll be summat in it fer yer , right ? ’ |
| 20 | In this way you can make more sense of the facts by having useful comparisons . |
| 21 | Do you think you can have some sense talked into you ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Begin at the beginning this time , and maybe we 'll get some sense out of you . ’ |
| 23 | At most we can make some sense of small parts of the pattern . |
| 24 | Be because we can make some sense |
| 25 | So we can use one sense to stimulate a reaction in another sensory area . |
| 26 | We can see some sense in this . |
| 27 | We can gain some sense of the distance photography has travelled and the imminent great changes , by looking back to one of the earliest surviving photographic images . |
| 28 | Although there is no such thing as a typical CD-I development budget , we can gain some sense of the scale of cost involved from the fact that many of the discs currently in production are budgeted at well over £250,000 . |
| 29 | Before providing a framework within which to see the information industry , we can get some sense of scale by comparing the size of the electronic media markets with print-on-paper markets . |
| 30 | My next port of call is the area agent , if we can get any sense out of the poor old boy . ’ |