Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [art] [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 EVERYONE has had the feeling of the Monday morning blues , but imagine if that feeling was overwhelming and lasted months or even years .
7 Everyone has signed the petition : lawyers and business men , musicians and housewives , teachers and workmen .
8 But not everyone has welcomed the news .
9 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
10 Nothing has broken the isolation more than the light aircraft .
11 Your letters have been coming quite regularly , and apart from the couple of letters which reached me via Sian , nothing has interrupted the flow , and they are a comfort , especially as the children seem to be getting on so well , and the computer course as well .
12 At least if no-one has done the job before , anything you do will be an improvement ! ’
13 She said at the time ‘ no-one has given the BBC a mandate to promote their causes .
14 ‘ The plans have existed for three years and no-one has asked the supporters for their opinion , ’ says a spokesman .
15 No-one has ordered the ambulance .
16 Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has .
17 Although no-one has won the race in successive years , he is happy and confident after good preparation in Brighton .
18 Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives .
19 Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
20 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 .
21 Someone has characterized the beatitudes as ‘ be-attitudes ’ .
22 Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night .
23 If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ?
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it .
27 The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) .
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