Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] any sense [prep] " 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 | If I had any sense at all , I would have left then . |
4 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ Do you make any sense of it , Ranulf ? ’ |
8 | Do you have any sense in talking to schools , for example , that parents were a nuisance , Michael ? |
9 | She lost any sense of time , knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing . |
10 | If you had any sense at all you would start back now before they come looking for us . ’ |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
14 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
15 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |