Example sentences of "he have [art] [adj] sense " in BNC.

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1 He has a classic sense of gastronomic order .
2 He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused .
3 He has a flawless sense of colour and form , and realises an ideal balance between formal clipped structure and drifting floral ephemera , springing delicious surprises upon the enchanted visitor .
4 Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods .
5 He has a wry sense of humour and an uncompromising disposition , particularly when it comes to talking about deeds of valour .
6 He has a fine sense of humour , and he shows strong leadership qualities .
7 He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney .
8 Ken Branagh is a fascinating man and he has an amazing sense of duty to other people , but I just do n't have his kind of energy .
9 But at the same time he has an acute sense of her as being more than the object of his perception , as being another subjectivity , a self which is not his own self .
10 We got on very well and he has an excellent sense of humour . ’
11 He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement .
12 He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either .
13 Maxim did n't mind , although he had a vague sense Apgood was seeing something he 'd missed himself .
14 He had a terrible sense of direction , always getting left , right , up , down , forwards and backwards mixed up .
15 Thank goodness , though that for all he was n't so free with his smiles he had a terrific sense of humour and had not held against her the blunt , not to say impolite way she 'd asked if he was prepared to give her an interview .
16 He was the kind of manager you could approach without hesitation and he had a sharp sense of humour .
17 It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually .
18 He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul .
19 He had a rotten sense of humour .
20 He had a sudden sense that Violette had more of Sylvie in her than Sylvie 's own daughter .
21 He had a pious sense of his own importance and had always thought all these acts were directed at him , from which he had only escaped by good luck .
22 He had a fine sense of theatrical timing , which helped in publicizing his ventures .
23 He had a quick sense of humour , with a Victorian weakness for outrageous puns , little of which shows in his mature poetry except in his play with language .
24 He had an impeccable sense of rhythm , not in the metronomic , military sense of the term but in his feel for the real inner rhythm of the music he was conducting .
25 Furthermore , he had an acute sense of deviation from the norm in any society .
26 He had an infectious sense of humour , and recently scripted an amusing and satirical pantomime .
27 Before he lost his money he had the good sense to commission John Soane to design the Campden Hill Square house .
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