Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know Old Shallot , I have a well-developed sense of my own preservation . |
| 2 | I have a warm sense of privilege , I think , in spite of the sudden lack of an audience for my opinions . |
| 3 | I have a real sense |
| 4 | I have a strong sense of rhythm |
| 5 | A piece of impudence on my part , really , but I have a strong sense of civic duty . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a funny sense of humour . |
| 7 | God knows , perhaps I have a sixth sense , but the hair on the nape of my neck prickled with fear . |
| 8 | ‘ I come across as being intolerant because I have a different sense of what is important these days . |
| 9 | Armed with my camera and reporter 's credentials , I have a false sense of security . |
| 10 | I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour , as though I was doing something morally wrong . |
| 11 | There is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal friendship and gratitude. * |
| 12 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 13 | ‘ You have a great sense of style , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 14 | ‘ You have a warped sense of humour , ’ she informed him coldly . |
| 15 | Throughout Orwell 's Wigan Pier you have a strong sense of him tramping around on foot . |
| 16 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 17 | You have a wonderful sense of the dramatic . |
| 18 | In an age in which we have a keen sense for the difference between fact and symbol , Wilson-Kastner makes no distinction . |
| 19 | We have a different sense of humour . ’ |
| 20 | But more than this , we have a vivid sense of the loneliness of the human observer , set apart from his surroundings , and of " a mind energetically stretching to subdue a dazzling experience outside the self in a way that has innumerable counterparts elsewhere in Conrad " . |
| 21 | And they have a real sense of being more credible . |
| 22 | For example owls and other predatory birds such as buzzards have binocular vision and acute hearing although they have a poor sense of smell . |
| 23 | Men and women may or may not be moral in practice in 1700 , but there is no doubt that they have a common sense of morality which is itself bound up with a religious world-view . |
| 24 | However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith . |
| 25 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |