Example sentences of "have a word for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should n't be a word for it , but Dirk has a word for it . |
| 2 | Alan Moore , one of the new generation , has a word for viewers , readers and comic writers : ‘ Comics may be one of the only untainted sources of information available to a readership ; so it becomes vital that no matter what you say , say it well , say it true , say it clearly . ’ |
| 3 | Do the Greeks have a word for it ? |
| 4 | What did you Did you have a word for grease ? |
| 5 | What would you , did you have a word for the tinkers ? |
| 6 | But it does have a word for ‘ beech tree ’ . |
| 7 | Do you have a word for her have you Clay ? |
| 8 | She says I think one of the worst or strangest is errif which is a two year old canary — why anyone would want to have a word for that I do n't know . |
| 9 | The Dutch had a word for it too , Thiercelin reflected . |
| 10 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 11 | As usual , the Greeks had a word for it |
| 12 | The Greeks , as ever , had a word for it — two words , in fact , literally meaning ‘ to fix a book ’ , which , as a rough definition , is as good as any to describe the process of putting a protective cover round the printed sections . |
| 13 | The big man had a word for everyone he met , and produced blushes and laughs from the serving maids in equal quantities . |
| 14 | It would have been even better had a Word for Windows style drag and drop edit facility been included with that , but , for the moment , you have to content yourself with good ol' cut and paste , I 'm afraid . |
| 15 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 16 | Writers have sometimes brought in the phrase ‘ The Greeks had a word for it . ’ |
| 17 | The Greeks Had a Word For It was the title of a play by the American poet and playwright Zoe Akins , first produced in 1929 . |
| 18 | The reference was not sexual ; but in 1932 a film about three New York gold-diggers — forerunner of the Gold Diggers series and other movies — was called The Greeks Had a Word for Them . |
| 19 | No , not amorous : randy — we have a word for that . |
| 20 | But then , do the French , Spanish or Italians have a word for it ? |
| 21 | The British may say that if the French have a word for it , then le corbeau must be an old French habit . |
| 22 | The doctors have a word for that misery ; they call it anhedonia , which only means an inability to feel enjoyment , and that 's what it is , but it feels like hell , like true hell , and it 's a hell you ca n't even escape from in sleep because overdosing on cocaine gives you chronic insomnia . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think the beTrobi have a word for it . |