Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " 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 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 9 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 10 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 13 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |
| 18 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him . |
| 22 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 23 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |