Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 2 | The passage will remind some readers of Chomsky 's palmier days , in linguistics rather than AI , when he would begin arguments with ‘ Obviously , everyone has internalized a grammar … ’ |
| 3 | If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ? |
| 4 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Well I 'll be , I 'm not going to go into it , that 's a close on itself , just like the first one that I , everyone has got a sequence |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 13 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 14 | One of my friends ( 'I' ) who just stays a couple of doors up from me has got a very different attitude towards sex . |
| 15 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 16 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 17 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 18 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 19 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The eleven participating artists , each of whom has contributed a screenprint , are drawn from the ranks of the city 's exciting younger generation and include Angela Bulloch , Damien Hirst , Langlands & Bell , Michael Landy , Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 24 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 25 | ‘ While everyone wants to have a nice looking bass , I think you have to get your priorities in order . |
| 26 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
| 27 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 28 | For lenders there is clearly a more desirable proposition in a public house that has a higher beverages or ‘ wet ’ side than a ‘ dry ’ side , because if someone wants to purchase a pub with a high ‘ dry ’ side , and they do not have much catering experience , then their turnover could diminish rapidly . |
| 29 | If someone wants to put a nuclear power station , a new road or railway , a science park , a supermarket or even a public convenience at the bottom of one 's garden , most people would not want it . |
| 30 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |