Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [vb pp] 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 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 .
4 The game continues until everyone has had a turn .
5 ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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
9 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 .
10 So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy .
11 Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
12 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 .
13 Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night .
14 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 .
15 Someone has done a lovely drawing of me .
16 I think someone has done a great wrong .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . )
21 It is rather disingenuous of the Minister to extrapolate the logic that , because someone has described a situation , that means that he necessarily agrees with it .
22 Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way .
23 The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it .
24 Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias .
25 Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed .
26 Someone has spotted a prowling car .
27 It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively .
28 Very thoughtful of someone to have engaged a maid for her in hospital .
29 The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood .
30 Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts .
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