Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 2 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 3 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 4 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 5 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 6 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 7 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 8 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 9 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
| 10 | It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly . |
| 11 | I think someone has done a great wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone has done a lovely drawing of me . |
| 13 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 14 | ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . ) |
| 15 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 16 | Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed . |
| 17 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 18 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 19 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 20 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 21 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 22 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 23 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 24 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 25 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 26 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 27 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 28 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 29 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 30 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |