Example sentences of "sense [prep] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sick , but was relieved to feel something : the weight of the food in her stomach did something to counteract the sense of unreality that afflicted her . |
| 2 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 3 | Even the most casual reader of the Crossman and Castle diaries can not fail to pick up the sense of exhaustion that permeates their pages . |
| 4 | I am without the sense of purpose that woke me so early . |
| 5 | At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious . |
| 6 | The second component is the powerful sense of mission that underpins everything McDonald 's does — a mission to set the industry standard for quality , service and cleanliness through an unrelenting attention to detail . |
| 7 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 8 | As always , the pleasure was heightened by the sense of guilt that accompanied it . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 10 | In fact it was Jack 's sense of humour that kept her feelings in proportion during the next few days . |
| 11 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 12 | And though rude , crude , vulgar and philistine , she also had an abrasive sense of reality that made her attractive to artists . |
| 13 | The letter in his hand aroused in him a sense of urgency that offset his fear of the narrow enclosed footpath known locally as Dead Man 's Alley . |
| 14 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 15 | His expectations of the bird life were high , and he revelled in the sense of anticipation that gripped him before his departure . |