Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you never make a mistake or change a word . ’ |
| 2 | And I will actually draw or paint a word picture for you to put you in the scene . |
| 3 | Furthermore , spontaneous speech , even in the most articulate speakers , is filled with hesitations ( during which speakers say such things as ‘ er ’ and ‘ um ’ , or repeat a word or syllable ) and silences . |
| 4 | At no time , either , did Zacco either seek to be alone with him , or utter a word of reproach about his failure with Famagusta . |
| 5 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 6 | Their translations were often either incorrect or contained a word left in English for which the translator could find no equivalent in his language . |
| 7 | The Emperor still remains immovable without making a sign or uttering a word , but , he thinks , ‘ Those are the men they used to call my Praetorian Guards ! ’ |
| 8 | I can fall downstairs at home , and I wo n't cry or say a word about it ! ’ |
| 9 | The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) . |
| 10 | I never saw any acknowledgement nor received a word of thanks . |
| 11 | She looked at him but made no reply ; then she went out escorted , one on each side , by the two men , and neither of them spoke to her nor exchanged a word with each other until they were crossing the main road , when seemingly out of nowhere stepped a policeman , and they all came to a halt . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that any way to walk in on a girl , when you have n't shown your face nor sent a word all this time ? |
| 13 | During the five days between that dreadful night and the day of the funeral , Joe and Ellen Jebeau never looked at each other , nor did a word pass between them . |
| 14 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 15 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 16 | The solipsist , that is to say , can not get the practice started in the way in which he pretends , by concentrating on the nature of the original sensation and inventing a word to refer to this sensation and to others like it . |
| 17 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 18 | Second , they agree on the conclusion that the solipsist 's charade of concentrating on an experience and pronouncing a word , no matter how fervently , can not succeed in establishing a rule which the solipsist can follow in a new case . |
| 19 | She accepted the glass and muttered a word of thanks . |
| 20 | Several times she stopped , put down her shoe-parcel , and signalled a word with her flags . |
| 21 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 22 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 23 | Someone had better go down and have a word … |
| 24 | I 'll go over and have a word with him . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll go up and have a word with him , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I 'd better go and have a word with her . ’ |
| 27 | I 've arranged to drive out and have a word with the Master tomorrow morning . |
| 28 | Perhaps you should go up and have a word with her , make sure … ! ’ |
| 29 | He would generally stop and have a word or two or listen to her . |
| 30 | ‘ If it was really bad , ’ he said , ‘ I 'd go and have a word . ’ |