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

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1 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 … ’
2 If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ?
3 Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time .
4 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 .
5 The game continues until everyone has had a turn .
6 ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’
7 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 .
8 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 . ’
9 Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape .
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 And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ?
13 So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy .
14 It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly .
15 Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives .
16 Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
17 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 .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 or someone has to take a , a bi a co company has to take a big lot off .
20 Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night .
21 But the pink-footed looks as if someone has pushed a tennis ball up into the top of a short sock : round head , short neck , with a small beak stuck on .
22 Someone has done a lovely drawing of me .
23 I think someone has done a great wrong .
24 If , as frequently occurs , unpleasant symptoms arise as the result of the stress — the heart races , the stomach feels as though someone has tied a knot in it — we become so aware of these sensations that we are even less able to function well .
25 ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things .
26 ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it .
27 If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital .
28 If someone has had an accident in their home , fallen and injured themselves or been taken ill , they may not be able to attract the attention of neighbours , passers-by or people who call at the door .
29 As Nick sets to work his wife Jate ( Niamh Cusack ) discovers that someone has committed a far more serious offence — but the witness wo n't talk .
30 ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . )
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