Example sentences of "to have [art] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | in such circumstances it would be appropriate to have the words ‘ save by way of set off against damages and/or costs ’ added to the order and our counsel should be advised accordingly . |
| 2 | Look , you just hang on here a minute , I want to have a word with Katrina about something . ’ |
| 3 | A bit of discreet negotiating sorted it out and the area chairman led Mrs Thatcher over to have a word with the local press on her way to the Battlebus , as we called the campaign coach . |
| 4 | ‘ You are going to have a word with your dissolute friends , and discover where these girls are to be found . |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Kenton is wishing to have a word with you , sir , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I had planned to have a word with my Maker before walking on , but I could n't get in . |
| 7 | And I 'm telling you , do n't speak to me in that fashion or I 'll have to have a word with your father . ’ |
| 8 | I want to have a word with you . ’ |
| 9 | I want to have a word with that … that … ’ |
| 10 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 11 | And before anything else , I want to have a word with Tzani-bey al-Ablak . ’ |
| 12 | Out of what appeared to be a tackroom emerged a man who walked with authority , stopping to have a word with one and another of the workers as he crossed towards Jonadab and George . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'll have to have a word with that dog ! ’ |
| 14 | He 'll take the scrap tomorrow , but I think he wanted to have a word with you . |
| 15 | Ben , however , did not remark on the scene he had just witnessed , but said , ‘ There 's a friend of yours in the yard who would like to have a word with you . |
| 16 | Before I went , though , I managed to have a word on the side with the lass . |
| 17 | Joe went downstairs to have a word with the Beavis family , to let them know he had a young woman upstairs and why . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you 're better-looking , Connie , but it 's Archie I 'd like to have a word with , ’ said Joe . |
| 19 | Finally , in order to have a word with the silent Cis , I asked Elfed to fetch Richard , who had been awaiting in the kitchen the result of the meeting . |
| 20 | If it 's a private job , then it 's only common courtesy to have a word with the owners of the house and ask if they mind you helping yourself to an old door , or whatever . |
| 21 | They want to have a word with you . ’ |
| 22 | That 's a bit like erm did n't you used to have a word box with words in ? |
| 23 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 24 | So when we got the council 's bloke to have a word with her , went to saw he a fortnight ago , and she 's moved today . |
| 25 | Perhaps you ought to have a word with the kitchen staff , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 26 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway — it 's nice to have a word from time to time . |
| 28 | I want to have a word with you , lad . ’ |
| 29 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 30 | Then if you 'd wait in the library or your own office I 'll be down to have a word when I 've finished here . |