The paper discusses the concept of Government Pattern [GP] in the sense of  Meaning-Text linguistic theory. GP is a tool for describing the cooccurrence of a predicative lexeme with its actants. This cooccurrence is largely idiosyncratic, i.e., not fully predictable from the lexeme’s meaning. Nevertheless, correlations between the meaning of a lexeme and its GP type do exist, which allows for establishing (underspecified) generalized GPs for classes of semantically related lexemes. Generalized GPs are proposed for a number of Serbian lexemes denoting unpleasant physical sensations and exhibiting  uncharacteristic behavior from the viewpoint of argument linking (= correspondence  between their semantic and syntactic actants).