Example sentences of "sense [prep] [noun] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All heroes are in some measure anti-heroes , after all , if the term means that they are opposed to some antiquated sense of heroism that their creators are eager to question or discredit . |
| 2 | The audience got his sense of concern that his heiress daughter would be happy . |
| 3 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 4 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 5 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 6 | In the campaign of 1960 , Kennedy generated an excitement and sense of expectation that his more experienced Republican rival , Richard Nixon , was unable to match . |
| 7 | Reflecting on the parson 's fortitude in distress , his manifest care for his wife , and his humble acceptance of divine will , Agnew had felt a sense of shame that his original impulse had been clouded by the passing years . |