Example sentences of "[indef pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 15 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 16 | ‘ While everyone wants to have a nice looking bass , I think you have to get your priorities in order . |
| 17 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
| 18 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |
| 22 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 23 | If someone wants to buy a printer or 20 diskettes from us it would be pointless to tell them they 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 24 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 25 | If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him . |
| 26 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 27 | Commenting on the scope of a scheme that can give every farmer a stake in conservation , he said : ‘ If someone wants to make a 20 metre-wide headland , he can run it for a mile and still use up only eight acres of his set-aside land . ’ |
| 28 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 29 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 30 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |