Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 2 | And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ? |
| 3 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 4 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 5 | For lenders there is clearly a more desirable proposition in a public house that has a higher beverages or ‘ wet ’ side than a ‘ dry ’ side , because if someone wants to purchase a pub with a high ‘ dry ’ side , and they do not have much catering experience , then their turnover could diminish rapidly . |
| 6 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |
| 7 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 8 | If someone wants to buy a printer or 20 diskettes from us it would be pointless to tell them they 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 9 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 10 | If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him . |
| 11 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
| 13 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 14 | If , therefore , someone wishes to assert a right to confidentiality , the initial burden of establishing circumstances giving rise to this right lies upon him . |
| 15 | So a horse that is roughly bridled may become ‘ head shy ’ and always throw its head when someone tries to put a bit in its mouth ; or a horse that is galled by the saddle when it is initially broken in may always have a ‘ cold back ’ and buck ; and a horse that has its girths thoughtlessly tightened immediately to the top hole may become ‘ girth shy ’ . |
| 16 | She thinks a man like me learns his sexuality like someone learns to ride a bicycle or learns how to swim . |
| 17 | I throw up onto the floor and they pause the video for me and somebody goes to get a mop . |
| 18 | Nobody has to answer a telephone , so , alright . |
| 19 | Right , now we 're are n't we , we 're , because the next time that that handset is used , the black button in other words is dislodged , and lodged , by the way , it will send a signal to the computer saying ‘ Right , it 's your turn to carry out the camp on if you want to , again you 've got the choice , you do n't have to , nobody has to answer a camp on . |
| 20 | Somebody has to earn a living in this family . |
| 21 | Somebody has to have a sense of the history of things . ’ |
| 22 | I mean somebody has to have an idea of what 's to be done and how it should be communicated to the employees . ’ |
| 23 | Nobody wants to tell a man his eldest son 's gone . |
| 24 | Erm , but I think P , er , budget review , or somebody needs to have a look at it , if you 've got budget review and you 've got people who , most of the people who were on the old working party know the background there anyway , seems as good a place as any to look at it . |
| 25 | again , I mean I maybe should n't do this but I tend to take a very relaxed attitude to these things and if somebody wants to bring a pal or if somebody that would be interested I see it as P R for the B A I E you know |
| 26 | I could n't blame him , nobody likes to pick an argument with a London cabbie . |
| 27 | ‘ But what if somebody comes to buy a ticket ? ’ |
| 28 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 29 | In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place . |
| 30 | Everything has to have a till receipt . |