1.
‘She’s a very capable, sensible and efficient woman, I should think … just got a blind spot where this one man is concerned
2.
That Ellie was a nice one, sensible too
3.
‘Sounds like a sensible idea, this annexe of yours
4.
’ I said, wondering if it is such a sensible idea after all
5.
Stephen is much the same – keen but not terribly sensible
6.
Glenelle was listening, but though she thought she knew the words, none of them seemed connected in a sensible way
7.
Adrian seems a sensible sort of man
8.
Yes, of course she would have done … she’s sensible
9.
“He is a good and sensible person; you two could match together,” she says smiling
10.
He is a nice, good-looking and sensible guy; moreover, he is quite wealthy and he has a good job in a big TV channel
11.
‘Oh … that was sensible of him
12.
Birds were tweeting and chirping invisibly in the trees as she wandered along the lane towards the main road, it was that dead hour in the middle of the day when, in rural areas, any sensible person is inside enjoying a cup of something … it brought back memories of her childhood … she smiled at the thought … a dog barked somewhere in the distance … and a stick cracked as someone trod on it
13.
Deciding that it would be sensible to get there and then get herself a cup of tea rather than hang around in town … there had to be a café in the station, didn’t there? And she’d picked a book off Iain’s bookshelves before leaving
14.
She stood in the early morning sunlight, feeling the warmth of it touching her flesh though the sensible tunic and hosen she had quickly donned
15.
‘Do you really think it’s sensible to take JJ with you?’ he asked, aware that seeing JJ in her house might well prove a hurdle too far for her
16.
I flounder for some minutes trying to come up with a sensible reason while she stands there, arms akimbo almost daring me to give her a reply
17.
He’s dressed for travelling in sensible hosen and mantel … but I cannot help but note the quality of his garments
18.
After a somewhat heated discussion between us, Gilla got her way, this time persuading me to pack several skirts as well as the sensible hosen and shirts which have accompanied me on my journeys so far
19.
As always, Berndt is practical and sensible – it is he who locates our bags and checks that they are as they should be and he who oversees the ggs being settled in the stable
20.
An hour and a half later, slightly drowsy with good food and more wine than is sensible for me at lunchtime, I follow the two guys down the side street towards the harbour
21.
He’s wearing his usual Gottesman outfit of sensible hosen and a tunic, his belt, complete with pouch where he keeps his stones, firmly in place
22.
Although he didn’t say it, I get the general feeling that he feels it should have been him and not Joris who died … as if sensible, down to earth Berndt would be caught prancing around on the rail … I feel a cold shiver down my spine as I contemplate how I would feel if it had been Berndt and not Joris …
23.
I don’t know how long I stay there, at one with the roughness of the elements but, as the clouds gradually become darker and darker, portentous of worsening weather, I do the sensible thing and go below
24.
‘It would be sensible on several levels … not least the fact that I am not going to sleep much tucked in my own bunk knowing you are in here … and I have a feeling that you have strong views about sex outside marriage
25.
‘Sounds eminently sensible to me
26.
‘I hear you have become one of the family now, Lintze – and I thought you were a sensible lady
27.
He inspects my sensible hosen and warm woollen vullejakt approvingly
28.
Squatting behind the bush, I realise that Berndt’s advice was probably extremely sensible
29.
Given that he has what appears to be a satisfactory and fulfilling life, I cannot come up with any sensible reason other than that he was bitten by the urge to help with the survival of his society and, although that would sit with the man and his general helpfulness, it’s a bit extreme as reasons go
30.
‘Yes … that would be sensible
31.
‘Property is always a sensible investment whatever the market and in the long term it might be the best way of dealing with it
32.
Better ring Gary – now what’s his direct line? He answers almost immediately and agrees that Sunday would be sensible
33.
I sit silent as Karen and Alastair talk it through, concluding that it’s sensible for Alastair to continue using the house for work … it would also enable him to continue his role of parent much as he does at the moment
34.
It all seems eminently sensible to me, though the accepted inference that Alastair would then come home to me does rather take my breath away
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Sensible, well mannered and an ideal first boyfriend, I should think
36.
‘It might be a sensible idea to select the same day every week and dedicate that to practising serious stuff
37.
I mentioned to Sally what you were planning on doing, she thinks that’s a very sensible idea
38.
Anna decides that it would be sensible for her to move out as soon as they get back from honeymoon saying that they can probably camp with Jane and Peter for a few days if they have to
39.
We agree that it would be more sensible for me to deal with the letting of the cottage – I’ll contact the agency she used when I took the tenancy
40.
‘That’s a very sensible idea, Gary
41.
It is also a rather sad fact that my underwear veers on the sensible side of practical and maybe I ought to think a little more in terms of sexy …
42.
She asks sensible questions about heating and cooking facilities and I explain that the cooker, washing machine and fridge are staying as I shall be taking over the stuff in Anna’s cottage
43.
You know, I think some coffee could be a sensible idea
44.
’ Jo replied quickly, ‘I’ve had a chat with Jake about our relationship before, he’s very sensible and easy to talk to
45.
’ I said, sipping my sensible grapefruit and tonic
46.
The sensible rule of
47.
Sounds as though she was a very hands-on person … Bert said she wanted to know how to do things … she was keen on knitting and stuff like that … all very practical and sensible
48.
It would be the sensible thing to do, wouldn’t it? I’m sure your father would approve
49.
Walking to the office from the car park, I concentrate on calming down so that I present a sensible and, above all, normal face to the world as represented by Bill and Graham
50.
In some cases it is sensible
51.
Lunch would be sensible
52.
Pyjamas would be sensible, I have a pair I only keep for this sort of occasion
53.
‘Just as well I wore something sensible tonight then – I can wear this lot to the office without causing a riot
54.
I could swear that I was a sixteen year old in the excitement of a first love not a sensible forty year old man
55.
I suddenly think of Bunty … what would she have done? In spite of her hang ups sexually – and they were a direct result of her upbringing, I reckon – she was a sensible yet emotional woman
56.
Summer stuff … yes, that’s a sensible idea
57.
in the end, Ginny came to find me, sensible woman that she is, and we made up
58.
The great and wise chief thought the idea quite sensible and ordered his braves to do as the ancient one suggested
59.
His steps getting quicker and quicker as he moved off down the path, he comforted himself with the thought that this was the sensible course to take
60.
He stands by the door and lets Sensible Billy argue the case for retracing his steps
61.
He’d once been in a room with a lunatic and it had made the hair on his arms and neck stand on end – Ozzie’d had the same effect on him this time even though what he said had sounded sensible
62.
She was dressed in practical, unflattering skirt and jumper and sensible shoes, her tone was sensible – the combination created the sort of person Andy wouldn’t dream of arguing with … he’d had a school teacher a bit like this woman
63.
Just how had he got into this? Why, oh why, had he been so stupid as to think that Chas was offering a sensible option?
64.
sensible shoes could just be glimpsed
65.
Sensible? how am I to be sensible in the face of that? I meet him at the door
66.
It seemed a sensible way of getting to know people … anything to get away from those long evenings sitting thinking about the past and how it could have been … ironic really
67.
I have more lunch than usual on Thursday and, as I have decided that it would be sensible to take the day off on Friday, there is a holiday feel about work for me during the afternoon
68.
‘Pyracanthus would be more sensible
69.
Jane Hammond is sensible and should be able to cope
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) `Stupid animal that I was' (he said), `now I must sit in this dungeon, till people who were proud to say they knew me, have forgotten the very name of Toad! O wise old Badger!' (he said), `O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole! What sound judgments, what a knowledge of men and matters you have! O unhappy and lost Toad!' With cries such as these he passed his days and nights for several weeks, refusing his meals or snacks, though the grim and ancient jailer, knowing that Toad was rich, often pointed out that many comforts, and indeed luxuries, could be sent in-- at a price--from outside
71.
The high price of provisions during these ten years past, has not, in many parts of the kingdom, been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour
72.
Upon examining, however, the accounts which have been published of their annual produce, I have not been able to observe that its variations have had any sensible connection with the dearness or cheapness of the seasons
73.
the few places where it has yet taken place has produced no sensible advantage
74.
But compare the spacious palace and great wardrobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their clothing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as it is in quality
75.
The discovery of the mines of America, it is to be observed, does not seem to have had any very sensible effect upon the prices of things in England till after 1570; though even the mines of Potosi had been discovered more than twenty years before
76.
The value of silver, therefore, in proportion to that of corn, had probably risen somewhat before the end of the last century; and it seems to have continued to do so during the course of the greater part of the present, though the necessary operation of the bounty must have hindered that rise from being so sensible as it otherwise would have been in the actual state of tillage
77.
The continual consumption of the precious metals in coin by wearing, and in plate both by wearing and cleaning, is very sensible ; and in commodities of which the use is so very widely extended, would alone require a very great annual supply
78.
The consumption of those metals in some particular manufactures, though it may not perhaps be greater upon the whole than this gradual consumption, is, however, much more sensible, as it is much more rapid
79.
The little offals of their own table, their whey, skimmed milk, and butter milk, supply those animals with a part of their food, and they find the rest in the neighbouring fields, without doing any sensible damage to any body
80.
In the clothing manufacture there has, during the same period, been no such sensible reduction of price
81.
But the reduction will appear much more sensible and undeniable, if we compare the price of this manufacture in the present times with what it was in a much remoter period, towards the end of the fifteenth century, when the labour was probably much less subdivided, and the machinery employed much more imperfect, than it is at present
82.
I would feel torn and devastated for a while but not on the long run for I would have done what was sensible and right in the circumstances
83.
In 1751 and 1752, when Mr Hume published his Political Discourses, and soon after the great multiplication of paper money in Scotland, there was a very sensible rise in the price of provisions, owing, probably, to the badness of the seasons, and not to the multiplication of paper money
84.
The progress is frequently so gradual, that, at near periods, the improvement is not only not sensible, but, from the declension either of certain branches of industry, or of certain districts of the country, things which sometimes happen, though the country in general is in great prosperity, there frequently arises a suspicion, that the riches and industry of the whole are decaying
85.
“That happens to be a sensible and healthy habit
86.
They would still, therefore, keep possession of the home market; and though a capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares, merely because they were foreign, to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home, this folly could, from the nature of things, extend to so few, that it could make no sensible impression upon the general employment of the people
87.
Not only no great convulsion, but no sensible disorder, arose from so great a change in the situation of more than 100,000 men, all accustomed to the use of arms, and many of them to rapine and plunder
88.
"It's good to know you have a sensible mind
89.
“He’s sensible and sensitive
90.
They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country
91.
The force within us that actively works with our raw awareness of events, to create a sensible reality, is our intention, or our intentionality
92.
If thrown into the melting pot, however, they produced, without any sensible loss, a pound weight of standard gold, which could be sold at any time for between £47:14s
93.
, no sensible inconveniency of this kind is found to arise from it
94.
"I was sensible of just such a possibility," he said
95.
Compare the mercantile manners of Cadiz and Lisbon with those of Amsterdam, and you will be sensible how differently the conduct and character of merchants are affected by the high and by the low profits of stock
96.
He felt that they should bury the body but that was neither sensible nor practical
97.
“I can’t say I’m completely convinced that it’s sensible but I’ll go with that plan
98.
This sect, in their works, which are very numerous, and which treat not only of what is properly called Political Economy, or of the nature and causes or the wealth of nations, but of every other branch of the system of civil government, all follow implicitly, and without any sensible variation, the doctrine of Mr
99.
“He is usually so sensible