Example sentences of "[verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 31 | I want a word with you in private . ’ |
| 32 | I want a word with you . " |
| 33 | Tell your father to come with you , I want a word with him too . |
| 34 | ‘ Actually , Rachaela , I want a word with you about this lateness . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I want a word with you ! ’ he thundered . |
| 36 | ‘ I want a word with you , ’ he said , grabbing an arm and shoving the man back against the wall . |
| 37 | I want a word with you ! ’ |
| 38 | I want a word with you , ’ he said . |
| 39 | Get Bert on the phone I want a word with him now . |
| 40 | I want a word with my people upstairs . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I want a word with you , O'Shea , ’ Jack growled . |
| 42 | ‘ I want a word with you . |
| 43 | thank you , Keith , Daryl said to Keith I want a word now |
| 44 | Want a word … ? |
| 45 | ‘ Now Lord Chatwin wants a word , ’ Jake said , giving him a nudge . |
| 46 | ‘ You come down 'ere now , Sergeant Joe wants a word with yer , and if it means 'e 's goin' to knock yer 'ead off , I 'll give 'im an 'and . ’ |
| 47 | When a child wants a word , write in your book . |
| 48 | ‘ Mr Carter wants a word . ’ |
| 49 | Young Trotsky. said : ‘ Heh , Alan , there 's a guy here wants a word , ’ and then proceeded to distribute his newsletter around the tables to a less than rapturous welcome from the patrons . |
| 50 | He wants a word with you . ’ |
| 51 | He says he wants a word with you , Sophie . ’ |
| 52 | We gave her a score of 100 to start with , and deducted 10 per cent of her running total each time we found a word spelt rong . |
| 53 | General-purpose microcomputers , utilising a word processing program . |
| 54 | Nearly all those keyword-type online catalogues which use an implicit Boolean AND will simply report a failed search ( it might display " No entries " or " Nothing found " ) if the search contains a word which they can not find . |
| 55 | But he might well have added a word of recognition for the conductor who from beginning to end helped bring out Björling 's superb best : Nils Grevillius ( 1893–1970 ) . |
| 56 | ‘ I may possibly have added a word or two . ’ |
| 57 | As long as they pretend they have no alliance , none of the four needs say a word about the share-buying . |
| 58 | When he first knew her , when she was plump and big-boned , and had that corn-coloured hair and always wore pale grey , she would sit at Margaret 's parties and never say a word . |
| 59 | In the meantime , the random scatter of insights prompts one to appeal to Hughes with Keats ' suggestion , modestly opposed to the schematic might of The Godess essof Complete Being : ‘ Wheneer eryou write , say a word or two on some passage in Shakespeare that may have come rather new to you . ’ |
| 60 | Once you are accustomed to one Windows package , say a word processor , users say it 's plain sailing to learn another , such as a spreadsheet , because the conventions of look-and-feel tend to be very similar , though not necessarily identical . |