Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] a [noun sg] " 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 | And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ? |
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 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
17 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
28 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
29 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
30 | 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 . |