Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [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 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 8 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 18 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 19 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 20 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |
| 21 | Very thoughtful of someone to have engaged a maid for her in hospital . |
| 22 | The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood . |
| 23 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 24 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 25 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 26 | If someone had written a letter like that to her , she would quite probably be floating high above the assorted pickles and jams at this very moment on a pin , fluffy cloud , with a thousand invisible voices murmuring music into her ears . |
| 27 | Someone had lit a torch , but its smoky , wavering light only emphasised the hopelessness of trying to pick out individuals in the seething turmoil . |
| 28 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 29 | From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away . |
| 30 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |