Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football .
2 Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’
3 Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder .
4 Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them .
5 He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
6 But quite often grown-ups do n't know how to deal with someone who 's lost a partner
7 someone who 's done a streak from a sauna to outdoors in the South Pole , mm , that 's enough to turn your nibbles on
8 Yeah , I 'll probably think of someone who 's got a burner .
9 When you meet the likes of Mabel Brigge , you quickly recognise someone who has made a pact with Satan and acquired occult powers !
10 This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed .
11 In addition , being termed ‘ skilled ’ often simply means that the worker is carrying out a job traditionally performed by someone who has undertaken an apprenticeship and is therefore a craft worker by training .
12 It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear .
13 Going to ‘ day care ’ may involve too early a start for someone who has become a night owl while living alone .
14 It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’
15 To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks .
16 To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks .
17 Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift .
18 Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment .
19 Someone who has had an AIDS related illness may well be able to maintain a reasonably normal life , particularly if their immune system is still moderately good .
20 And yet Maurice appeared to be almost proud , because Harry was not a customer , but somebody who had demanded a favour and given nothing in return .
21 I mean is there anybody here , who honestly ca n't think of anybody who they know , I mean , perhaps if I try and rephrase that , is there anybody here who can not think of somebody who 's suffered an illness that fits into that critical illness er , category .
22 you know a red flower pot plant for somebody who 's got a ruby wedding this weekend , but there 's nothing up there , not much at all , Azalea 's are sort of all off you know
23 And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk .
24 I mean we must all know somebody who 's had a heart attack , a stroke , cancer etcetera , etcetera .
25 By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on .
26 At all times , almost everyone who had seen a poll noticed that the Conservatives were top , but perceptions of which party was in second place varied sharply .
27 He said he had written to everyone who had included an address , explaining that the problem in the dress circle was due to the original structure of the theatre .
28 EVERYONE who has played a part in the remarkable reduction in the number of deaths due to drink-driving deserves to be congratulated .
29 Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are .
30 Especially when after one who had seduced a mother of three , and had got what he wanted , threatened her by blackmail of telling a brutal husband about this if she did not continue the association .
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