Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They start again when the time comes , when alliances have shifted , when everyone has stored enough ammunition to have another go , when race hatreds revive under the guise of class wars begin anew as ethnic strife .
2 Everyone has done this — why do n't you ! ’
3 Everyone has had some disappointment or failure .
4 There 's been , everyone has had seven cards and that 's not one of them .
5 Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht .
6 Our priority all along has been to win the League and nothing has altered that . ’
7 This , his last concerto , was the first great concerto for the clarinet , and nothing has come near to matching it among all of the wind concertos written since .
8 Nothing has happened that is bad .
9 No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior .
10 You were not there , I was not there Saint Mark or the person who wrote this Gospel was not there Someone has recorded this for us looking back on it .
11 Now what 's happened in the past someone has cut these
12 I ca n't believe someone has done this and I wo n't ever see her again .
13 The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court .
14 If someone has suffered severe hearing loss for many years and suddenly is able to hear well through an aid , he is likely to have the same experience of surprise .
15 I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ?
16 If they fail to agree , it is necessary to decide where someone has gone wrong , in experimental design or theory-making .
17 If the price of the monetarist experiment has been consistently high levels of unemployment , then someone has to say sorry , to try to explain why all the pain is necessary , and to give the impression that something is being done to help .
18 While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination .
19 Blood-tests are now available to tell whether someone has had German measles in the past , and nobody in their right mind would suggest that such a positive blood test indicated the presence of active German measles long after the patient had recovered from the infection .
20 If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database .
21 If there 's a younger referee than me it 'll prove that someone has got real guts .
22 Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’
23 Someone has stolen one of our locomotives .
24 Someone has to stay sober around here . ’
25 This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure .
26 Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate .
27 Someone had gathered all the warmth and comfort into the room .
28 Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this .
29 There was a series of fingernail marks on the neck , and someone had applied central pressure .
30 The three figures looked quite awful ; someone had painted red , blue and green panties over the mid-sections of the figures perhaps to register objection to their nudity , but this only served to accentuate it .
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