Example sentences of "[prep] the word [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls . |
| 2 | We may also note that it is possible for the word instantiating the subordinate element to be otiose from the point of view of the speaker or hearer or both ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 3 | That is to say , the acoustic evidence for the word seemed to be much weaker when the semantic evidence for it was stronger . |
| 4 | Er , any other words there that particularly that we would use , er you know , replacement for the word influencing . |
| 5 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 6 | Search for the word append . |
| 7 | Fig 3.1 shows some possible segmentations for the word preached that a computer could posit . |
| 8 | Think about the word survive , before I tell you , what does that mean , survive ? |
| 9 | The unresponsive hearer Satan carries off the word giving the person no chance to respond . |
| 10 | He 's the fellow who you will see wandering backstage before , during and after The Word goes on air , fraternising with the celebrity guests and chatting to the audience . |
| 11 | This is known as the word 's recognition point ; and in the case of the word trespasses it is the phoneme /p/ . |
| 12 | If you 're not sure at the end of the word go for C K. |
| 13 | Whenever the liturgy of the Word remains formal and lifeless , it shows that these fundamental sacramental and liturgical principles have yet to be learnt ( see Bianchi , 1987 , pp. 120–2 ) . |
| 14 | There 's many definitions of the word kill . |
| 15 | There 's many definitions of the word kill . |
| 16 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 17 | The use of the direct route to the lexicon , the route which uses the visual code of the word to access its lexical representation , can be demonstrated in a number of ways . |
| 18 | The notion of " tone " here reflects a sense of the word expressed by I. A. Richards : that tone resides in the relationship between the author and his readers . |
| 19 | At this juncture Brenda appears to be unsure of the word called by one of the players . |
| 20 | A second word ( diakrino ) is the stronger form of the word to sever or to separate . |
| 21 | However , if the overall shape of the word had indicated a descending letter in the terminal position , then only one common word is possible . |
| 22 | The Latin origins of the word refer to a course in the sense of race-course , but its current meaning in education has moved some way from that . |
| 23 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 24 | But she had quickly learned that his definition of the word went far beyond what she understood it to mean . |
| 25 | The notion of education was to be interpreted in the widest sense of the word to include physical , moral , and mental training . |
| 26 | The myth is the idea that to talk of a mental process of remembering is to explain the use we make of the word remember . |
| 27 | It also points to a fundamental truth that the mystics perceived in the story of the Incarnation — that the " purpose of the Word become flesh was indeed to make mystics of us all " . |
| 28 | " Devils , " he murmured , as if the sound of the word pleased him . |
| 29 | The subject 's reaction time was measured from the time at which the target phoneme occurred ( not from the onset of the word containing the target ) . |
| 30 | The use of the word publish in this context may come as something of a shock but that 's exactly what the dissemination of information in printed form is ; publishing . |