Example sentences of "make any sense " in BNC.

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1 He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense .
2 His few words scarcely made any sense to her .
3 But how does one make any sense of Berlin ?
4 Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question .
5 I could n't make any sense out of it at all .
6 ‘ Did n't make any sense to hold back .
7 And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there .
8 It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it .
9 But he could n't make any sense of it .
10 He could n't make any sense of it at all .
11 It does n't make any sense at all .
12 It does n't make any sense .
13 But two men hitting each other about the face and body does n't make any sense to me .
14 Does that make any sense to you ? ’
15 ‘ But it does n't make any sense , ’ he complained , in deadly earnest .
16 ‘ Oxford was a complete disappointment — not snobby , it really is n't snobby — it did n't make any sense to me at all .
17 It just does n't make any sense .
18 This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it .
19 It is doubtful whether ever again the one-man universal classification schemes will make any sense ; it is too big a task .
20 It would n't make any sense .
21 It would n't make any sense .
22 The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them .
23 It does n't make any sense .
24 You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did .
25 Does this make any sense ?
26 ‘ It would n't make any sense to you .
27 It does n't make any sense . ’
28 She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's .
29 ‘ Do you make any sense of it , Ranulf ? ’
30 It does n't make any sense , when you 're obviously feeling chilled . ’
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