Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation . |
| 2 | But first I must just have a word with you about … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll just have a word with him , Chief Inspector . |
| 4 | I 'll just have a word with my chief accountant |
| 5 | But we 'll just have a word with Anna-Lee and if , I think you know , she 'll say what 's it concerning and if I 'm not there well she can put them through to you . |
| 6 | Nobody wanted to stroke a Gnome , except perhaps another Gnome , He thought he might just have a word with Caspar to see if Fenella could be brought along to his , Inchbad 's , bed that very night . |
| 7 | Even a reliable pattern recogniser could only find a word which best fits the script as it appears , having no knowledge to suggest that that word is incorrect . |
| 8 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 9 | At first Jane could hardly understand a word Mervyn said , but he was too good-humoured to be offended . |
| 10 | As Edward could hardly understand a word the man said either , that did not surprise him . |
| 11 | So did Jim , although he said they 'd never get a word in if he came . |
| 12 | ‘ If she went , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd never get a word in edgeways . ’ |
| 13 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 14 | He 'd never say a word . |
| 15 | You know I 'd never breathe a word to anybody . |
| 16 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 17 | I shall now say a word or two about what we should do , not just nationally , but internationally . |
| 18 | I would therefore add a word of caution and agree with Professor Sleight that we must have that data before we develop a general policy . |
| 19 | ‘ Tom would never say a word . ’ |
| 20 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |
| 21 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 22 | It will even suggest a word if the opponent is stuck ! |
| 23 | Of course , you will never hear a word about success and achievement from the benches opposite . |
| 24 | Yu mus never drop a word an all de time yu mus get betta |
| 25 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 26 | Remember that you can always select a word by double clicking and a paragraph by clicking three times but did you know that you can extend these further ? |
| 27 | You can even use a word processor , as long as it will let you save the files as plain text . |
| 28 | ‘ I can never understand a word Finn writes . ’ |