Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas burst open the door into the first , where somebody had lit a lamp . |
| 2 | She stabbed a book with a dangerous index finger , and took herself back to her desk , to survey her class and see that no-one had taken a whiff of pot while her attention had been distracted . |
| 3 | Once everyone had drunk a mug of hot strong tea , he sent his own men out to feed and check the stock which was kept down at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 4 | The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood . |
| 5 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 6 | Said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from a back garden and it was somewhere at Kirk Hill . |
| 7 | Oh , it said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from her back garden and it was somewhere at , where the back gardens are n't particularly accessible . |
| 8 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 9 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 10 | This way , it was going to be fairly obvious that someone had emptied a bottle of bleach into the punch but , since Henry could not possibly have a motive for murdering the whole of Maple Drive ( as far as the police were concerned , anyway ) , it would be relatively easy for him to gasp in horror and dismay and to take the Wimbledon CID around the places where he had left the bowl of punch unattended . |
| 11 | It 's proof that someone 's issued a book to you , yeah . |
| 12 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 13 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 14 | Joan recalled what happened : ‘ Apparently the soldier opened the bag and something fell out and he thought it was a paw and that somebody had thrown a dog into the river . |
| 15 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 16 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 17 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 18 | Having successfully manoeuvred an inoffensive farewell , one discovers that one has left a book in the room . |
| 19 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 20 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 21 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 22 | You know it 's like , you sometimes you can go a whole game like seventy minutes of a game and no-one 's had a goal scoring chance |
| 23 | So if everyone 's got a gun |
| 24 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 25 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 26 | From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away . |
| 27 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |
| 28 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 29 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 30 | Maximilian laughed as if someone had made a joke . |