Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Divitiacus had read his Posidonius — or somebody had read Posidonius to him . |
| 2 | The focus on popular political strategy , on the one hand , and on changes in political representation , on the other , may reveal democratic advance even where there is not the kind of regime change called a ‘ transition to democracy ’ ; so that systems undergoing such complete ( Spain ) or partial ( Brazil ) transitions may be compared to others ( Mexico ) where none have taken place . |
| 3 | Someone or something had had compassion on me . |
| 4 | Er mum it does n't matter where everything 's got milk on does it ? |
| 5 | Where everything 's got milk |
| 6 | There was no evidence in the present case that L 's girlfriend had taken delivery of the goods or that she or anyone had had instructions from L to take the goods , and L was not the only adult living there . |
| 7 | As my week-long stay in LA unrolls , I begin to discover that everyone has decided views about Arsenio . |
| 8 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 9 | ‘ At the time , he thought — no , it was almost as if he was hoping — that someone had pushed Klein off the cliff . |
| 10 | Defries had decided that someone had to take charge . |
| 11 | In the pause that followed , she noticed that someone had hung peanuts on a thread for the birds ; the empty shells looked like shrivelled skulls hung to frighten evil spirits . |
| 12 | A glance inside showed that someone had taken trouble , and there was a really friendly feeling about the place . |
| 13 | Although nobody has done research upon the development of brain connections in the beaver , they have done this kind of research on other animals , like worms . |
| 14 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 15 | De Matteo ( 1977 ) has argued that one has to understand sign language in terms of its visual imagery and he has particularly highlighted the syntactic devices used in ASL which derive from a visual representation of events . |
| 16 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 17 | Once one had given birth one could never really be free . |
| 18 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
| 19 | The fact that everybody has had experience of family life also means that families appear as natural and inevitable ways of organizing human social life . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the prosecution does not need to show that anyone has suffered loss . |
| 21 | And no-one has covered Northern Ireland as thoroughly as we have : Panorama 's Dirty War examined the way British intelligence ran agent Brian Nelson ; Lethal Force tested the suspicion that men who could have been captured or wanted to surrender had been shot dead whilst a special on the Guildford Four broke new ground , exposing the role of the DPP 's office in withholding crucial evidence . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ It felt like someone had stabbed ice in my face , then my right eye went black . |
| 23 | There 's a murky region of the VDU , as if someone has rubbed grease on to it . |
| 24 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 25 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
| 26 | Well we come out of woods and someone had phoned police up or something escaped from Leeds . |
| 27 | He looked down at the man still standing nervously in front of him , and noticed his jacket was patched and someone had put leather binding round the edges of the sleeves . |
| 28 | You see , the face is a coconut , and someone has drawn eyes , a nose , and a mouth on it . |
| 29 | The fact that if somebody 's got parcels they want moving , they have n't got parcels they want moving next Monday , they 've got parcels that want moving today . |
| 30 | and nobody had paid rates , and they would n't pay rates until they 'd actually finished building on the land opposite . |