Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ? |
| 2 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
| 6 | Corbett felt his head and neck tense as if someone had slipped an iron helm over his hair . |
| 7 | But if someone had had an accident and could not work , his shaikh consulted other elderly men before making a levy , or before drawing on the lineage bank account . |
| 8 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 9 | Someone had to keep an eye on him . |
| 10 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 11 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 12 | Of the senators involved Bush said : " They ought not to panic and run like a covey of quail because somebody has made an allegation against a man whose word I trust , and who , as I understand it , has n't been fingered by what 's coming out of this process … |
| 13 | I mean somebody has to have an idea of what 's to be done and how it should be communicated to the employees . ’ |
| 14 | As she rang off and Sarella was left holding the phone she thought she heard a click on the line as if somebody had replaced an extension . |
| 15 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 16 | Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ? |
| 17 | Nobody 's got an alibi until we know that . ’ |
| 18 | One can , for example , no longer say that , if one has made an observation of the velocity , then the velocity will be the same one period later . |
| 19 | As far as I know , no one has used an ad which is actively involved in selling a product in quite this way . |
| 20 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |
| 21 | One had to respect an enemy like this . |
| 22 | At that time , to get into Somerville , one had to do an examination in four subjects — the alternative being |
| 23 | Woods are rare in Orkney , and this one had proved an attraction . |
| 24 | Does everyone have to have an NI number ? |
| 25 | If anybody 's got an alibi , he has . ’ |
| 26 | At the desk asked if anyone had returned an umbrella , but the clerk shook his head . |
| 27 | Everyone had to produce an identity card , including those actually in the internment camps ! |