Example sentences of "[indef pn] 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 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 5 | It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly . |
| 6 | I think someone has done a great wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone has done a lovely drawing of me . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . ) |
| 10 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 13 | Burun was pleased that someone had asked an intelligent question . |
| 14 | In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job . |
| 15 | Only that someone had done a stupid thing , from his point of view . |
| 16 | Someone had applied a damp cloth to her head . |
| 17 | Passing through a town , Perdita noticed someone had painted a blue-and-white flag and a ‘ Malvinas belong to Argentina ’ slogan on the plinth of a statue of a general . |
| 18 | Since the baby 's birth and its mother 's death her whole view of life seemed to have changed abruptly , as though someone had shaken a giant kaleidoscope and she saw the whole world and herself in a different light . |
| 19 | But here she was , floating on the calm blue sea , with Malta 's rocky cliffs to the north , and Africa two hundred and thirty kilometres to the south , revelling in Roman 's wry , amusing conversation , mentally relishing the folk-tales , the fictional fate of Antonio and Louisa , and revisualising the images of the luminous sponge and coral on the bed of the Blue Grotto , feeling as if someone had waved a magic wand , wafted her to a place of her heart 's desire … |
| 20 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 21 | The realization that he was the mouse came instinctively , quickly followed by the slightly ludicrous observation that someone had made a gigantic balls-up . |
| 22 | Someone had thrust a burning torch into an old iron wall bracket , and there was a warm soft light and the faint scent of fragrant wood burning . |
| 23 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 24 | She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life . |
| 25 | There was a pop as if someone had exploded a huge paper bag , a disappearing electric sizzle , and the searchlight went out . |
| 26 | On her head was a hat that looked as if someone had dropped a large meringue on her head . |
| 27 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 28 | The ugly factor about each print was someone had fashioned a rubber stamp showing the crosshairs of a sniperscope rifle . |
| 29 | Someone had left an English Sunday newspaper behind on the table . |
| 30 | Someone had nailed a simple crucifix to the top of the lid with the name ‘ Cosmas ’ scrawled in black beneath it . |