Example sentences of "with a [adj] sense [prep] humour " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tall , thin , dark haired , slightly stooped , with a dry sense of humour — a pleasant change from the humourless ciphers in the other block . |
| 2 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 3 | ‘ I am , unfortunately , the one who speaks for two hours in face of Mr Agnelli , ’ says Massimo Aimetti , Iveco 's vice president , finance , with a dry sense of humour . |
| 4 | Today he is a professor of physics at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) in Provo Utah , is a world authority on the experimental investigations of muon catalysed fusion , and is a quietly spoken contemplative man with a dry sense of humour who describes his fair slightly greying hair as ‘ palladium blond ’ . |
| 5 | Kakoo , as she was always known , was a unique person , one of the loveliest girls we ever saw , and all her life she remained beautiful , with a marvellous sense of humour and a true enjoyment in everything she did and everyone she knew . |
| 6 | Quiet-spoken and deeply read , he is an instructive and entertaining conversationalist with a sardonic sense of humour . |
| 7 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 8 | All our 50 minute programmes , backed by their own booklets , and presented with a nice sense of humour . |
| 9 | Willans was a heavily built man with a satirical sense of humour , whose chief recreations were skating and fishing . |
| 10 | My father described the Sharif as " a delightful old man with a decided sense of humour " . |
| 11 | The children were wonderfully responsive , with a great sense of humour and they derived enormous excitement from the games and competitions . |
| 12 | Although at times her behaviour can be challenging , she is growing in confidence and is lively and chatty , with a great sense of humour and imagination . |
| 13 | She gets me food and she 's a marvellous person , with a great sense of humour . |
| 14 | An obvious enthusiast , with a strong sense of humour which did not detract from his very informative presentation . |
| 15 | ‘ He was a remarkably intellectual man with a rare sense of humour , and he really cared about people . ’ |
| 16 | He is cheerful , hard working and gregarious , with a good sense of humour , and is also very popular with the regular guests , who regard him as something of an institution . |
| 17 | He is a popular affectionate boy with a good sense of humour . |
| 18 | At 14 , Andrew Hobbs was a fun-loving teenager with a good sense of humour . |
| 19 | For all his legal transgressions , Hooley was not an unattractive character : warm-hearted , dynamic , musically gifted ( he played the piano and the organ ) , and with a contagious sense of humour . |
| 20 | She was totally guileless , honest , with a mordant sense of humour and sardonic wit . |
| 21 | László is a lugubrious-looking , pale-complexioned , big-eyed , Budapest Jew with a sly sense of humour and an enormous fund of kindness . |
| 22 | People who go through any kind of shit come out with a certain sense of humour : it comes from the pain you go through and how you handle it . |
| 23 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 24 | In this story the principal character is a grumpy old house with a malevolent sense of humour . |
| 25 | He was tacit , bold , and weedy , with a miraculous sense of humour at work behind the face of a tomahawk . |
| 26 | In the case of the customer with a perverted sense of humour there would however be no theft for there would probably be no dishonesty and certainly no intent permanently to deprive the owner of the goods themselves . |
| 27 | He was winsome and diffident , with a quiet sense of humour . |
| 28 | Soft and gentle with a quiet sense of humour , he got more money out of his debtors than any of his fellows . |
| 29 | In the event , the water is far from hot — the EOKA gunmen who were once interned in this camp probably relied on the same boiler for water , and I am sure it was with a wry sense of humour that the Greek Cypriot government allocated St David 's Camp to the British contingent of the UN Forces in Cyprus . |
| 30 | The Utes who once inhabited these regions handed down tales of gods as entities with a wry sense of humour , human faults and even a mean streak . |