Example sentences of "[pron] has [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 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 .
23 For a man painted as a heartless thug last week , Blissett himself has shown a lot of character .
24 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 .
25 Nobody has built a golf course in the middle of a major city — until now .
26 Nobody has issued a fatwa or put out a contract .
27 Now if , do n't wait , if you know somebody has swallowed a poison whatever it is , get them to a hospital do n't wait for the signs and symptoms to appear , get them to a hospital .
28 Somebody has started a boat on the river .
29 Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme .
30 And somebody has got a question .
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