Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’
2 The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out .
3 Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election .
4 Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go .
5 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
6 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
7 And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation .
8 Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator …
9 That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her .
10 ‘ I think somebody better have a look at John , ’ she says .
11 stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys .
12 Somebody even had a violin .
13 at night cos there 's nobody here to have a conversation with .
14 AUGUSTA may indeed be august , though less snooty than might be imagined , but somebody there has a sense of humour and mischief at least .
15 He may be right , but nobody else has a chance to provide any input into the decisions which affect everybody in F1 . ’
16 It 's about time like s somebody else had a go at it because
17 They 'll not let , let somebody else have a turn ?
18 It 's like the little boy who 's got a toy , he do n't wan na share it , do n't wan na share it , if forced to share it , he 'll smash it rather than let somebody else have a go with it .
19 Oh somebody else having a birthday ?
20 At a matter of fact , it 's rather interesting that because somebody actually had a go at Peter about this , he 's a B B C er and we er , we should n't enter into politics about this , but you know the background of Peter .
21 Yeah , you 've got three doors which is more storage space than the other one , cos the other one only had a cupboard down had no drawers , what 's the matter ?
22 old one still had a day 's life left in it .
23 No one ever had a chance to change his or her mind , either .
24 Must one always have a reason , an excuse , to show the world like a certificate of release ?
25 One now has a print which is a reversed image of the drawing .
26 In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one .
27 One even had a flagpole and over the top of the trees below I could see the Union Jack fluttering .
28 Apparently one even had a room to oneself .
29 In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition .
30 One therefore has a theory that seems to predict that certain quantities , such as the curvature of space-time , are really infinite , yet these quantities can be observed and measured to be perfectly finite !
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