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 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 9 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 12 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 23 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 24 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For a man painted as a heartless thug last week , Blissett himself has shown a lot of character . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nobody has built a golf course in the middle of a major city — until now . |
| 29 | Nobody has to answer a telephone , so , alright . |
| 30 | Right , now we 're are n't we , we 're , because the next time that that handset is used , the black button in other words is dislodged , and lodged , by the way , it will send a signal to the computer saying ‘ Right , it 's your turn to carry out the camp on if you want to , again you 've got the choice , you do n't have to , nobody has to answer a camp on . |