Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 8 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 11 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 21 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 22 | No it means someone 's stopped a program , stopped a printout half way through and it does n't clear the page in |
| 23 | There must be thousands of copies out there , surely someone 's got a couple they 've finished with . |
| 24 | I mean she said it 's an instant thing when someone 's got a handbag you realise afterwards . |
| 25 | It 's proof that someone 's issued a book to you , yeah . |
| 26 | ‘ Having been a serving officer I know when someone 's had a drink . |
| 27 | Someone 's had a go at them , that what you 're saying ? ’ |
| 28 | Gordon himself has made a mail work , sending short , threatening letters to 300 recipients , and Anand Zenz has designed a pinstripe suit ( ed.13 ) , woven by a tailor in Savile Row , but changing the stripe to a provocative text which can be read at close quarters . |
| 29 | For a man painted as a heartless thug last week , Blissett himself has shown a lot of character . |
| 30 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1966 Nobody has scored a World Cup goal against England since Maradona left the defence looking like a broken washing line in 1986 . |