Example sentences of "[indef pn] have [vb pp] 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 7 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 15 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Very thoughtful of someone to have engaged a maid for her in hospital . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 20 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 21 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 22 | If someone had written a letter like that to her , she would quite probably be floating high above the assorted pickles and jams at this very moment on a pin , fluffy cloud , with a thousand invisible voices murmuring music into her ears . |
| 23 | Someone had lit a torch , but its smoky , wavering light only emphasised the hopelessness of trying to pick out individuals in the seething turmoil . |
| 24 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 25 | From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away . |
| 26 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |
| 27 | Someone had sent a pair of floral dancing shoes . |
| 28 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 29 | It looked as though someone had spilled a can of spaghetti and had to make some sense of it . |
| 30 | It was a cool night and someone had made a bonfire on the sand . |