Example sentences of "one have [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one has yet hijacked a Trislander , but theoretically it could happen . |
| 2 | In all my years in the Civil Service no one has ever brought a camera into the office and started taking snapshots ! |
| 3 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 4 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 5 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 6 | Of the remaining three patients who had had infections but normal pitted cell counts , one had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and a fifth had culture negative pneumonia . |
| 7 | No one had ever raised a hand to her in anger , and woe betide him if he should decide to be the first man to try . |
| 8 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 9 | It was as if no one had ever had a son before . |
| 10 | The right one 's okay but the left one 's still got a bit of infection so they do n't really know |