Example sentences of "[vb past] any sense " 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 | Unable to develop an idea of filmmaking that was both British and international , they concentrated their energies on defining their position on either side of that spectrum , and lost any sense of what cinema really is for . |
| 3 | It 's useful when discussions have become heated and lost any sense of structure or direction . |
| 4 | She lost any sense of time , knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing . |
| 5 | The first fortnight was plagued by a stiffness which undermined any sense of confidence . |
| 6 | The exigencies of survival in a shifting and precarious labour market , containing its own ideological practices , undermined any sense of loyalty to and tradition of organisation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 9 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 10 | None of it made any sense . |
| 11 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 12 | The most interesting effect in Kleiman 's experiments emerged when the shadowers were asked whether a sentence such as Pizzas have been eating Jerry made any sense . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 15 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 16 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 17 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 18 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 19 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 20 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 21 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 22 | It is doubtful , however , whether these filmmaking pioneers had any sense at all of the new invention 's potential significance . |
| 23 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 24 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 25 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 27 | If he had any sense he 'd get himself a good lawyer and keep his mouth shut . ’ |
| 28 | " If you had any sense you 'd forget him , but eat your heart out if you want to . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | And I 'd think he 'd repel any true woman , who had any sense . ’ |