Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [verb] 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 Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time .
3 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 .
4 The game continues until everyone has had a turn .
5 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 .
6 ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’
7 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
8 And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ?
9 Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind .
13 We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him .
17 If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting .
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 ‘ 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 .
22 Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it .
30 Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias .
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