Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [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 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 10 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 21 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 22 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Very thoughtful of someone to have engaged a maid for her in hospital . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 27 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 28 | Said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from a back garden and it was somewhere at Kirk Hill . |
| 29 | Oh , it said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from her back garden and it was somewhere at , where the back gardens are n't particularly accessible . |
| 30 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |