Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 2 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 3 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It looked as though someone had spilled a can of spaghetti and had to make some sense of it . |
| 6 | Someone had arranged a scatter of sea-shore pebbles on a low trunk , trying for a random pattern to make it look as though they had been cast like dice . |
| 7 | I do n't think he 'd have noticed if someone had dropped a set of kitchen units on his head from 30,000 feet . |
| 8 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 9 | Someone had left a copy of the Sun , and Sergei grabbed it saying , ‘ Ah , your free press ! ’ |
| 10 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 11 | Geoffrey felt as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water over him . |
| 12 | There was a tapping noise at the shutters , as if someone had thrown a handful of pebbles against them . |
| 13 | Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Someone had fetched a glass of water , the worldwide response to apparent catastrophe . |
| 16 | Somebody has to have a sense of the history of things . ’ |
| 17 | Now if somebody has got a load of chemical open and it is being absorbed , you must protect yourself first , if they are still conscious well then they will take off their own clothing , you do not unless you have got protective clothing on . |
| 18 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
| 19 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 20 | She thought at first somebody had left a bundle of washing in the telephone box . |
| 21 | If my right hand had n't felt as if somebody had grafted a bunch of bananas on to it and then dipped it in acid , it would have been a pleasant experience . |
| 22 | Somebody 's got a lot of hundreds |
| 23 | If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual . |
| 24 | Nobody 's got a sort of decision on |
| 25 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 26 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 27 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 28 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 29 | Ai n't got my grill on them though Oh I pulled it down we got a top on that like that one has got a sort of like bit here |
| 30 | Instead , one has to have a collection of gluons whose colors add up to white . |