Example sentences of "you [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 2 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 3 | You say a word , the children find it ; first team to find it gets a point . |
| 4 | But just remember that you are being judged even before you speak a word . |
| 5 | Have you got a word for her ? |
| 6 | Have you got a word ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I know that she deceived us as to who she is , but how could you believe a word Lord Blaine said about her , and she such a good hardworking girl ? |
| 8 | You can use it to find a particular place in a text if you know a word used there , or as a way of following up a particular theme , metaphor or symbol . |
| 9 | A similar pattern emerged from a second kind of monitoring — rhyme monitoring — in which subjects were given an instruction like Press the button whenever you hear a word rhyming with ‘ bread ’ . |
| 10 | Did n't you hear a word I said ? ’ he growled . |
| 11 | You needed a word that meant both ones . |
| 12 | What was , did you have a word ? |
| 13 | Did you have a word as well to describe what it was like in that jungle ? |
| 14 | What did you Did you have a word for grease ? |
| 15 | What would you , did you have a word for the tinkers ? |
| 16 | ‘ Will you have a word with them ? ’ |
| 17 | Did you have a word with Angela about P forty fives ? |
| 18 | Do you have a word for her have you Clay ? |
| 19 | can you have a word with Ida then ? |
| 20 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 21 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 22 | I 'm only showing you once darling and then you 'll have to do it or else I 'll never get me bingo done , alright , you choose a word to look for like Doc |
| 23 | This is where you drop something from a sentence or phrase and you leave a word or a phrase out . |
| 24 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 25 | You 're learning the same information over and over again , this lot you 're learning the whole lot once it 's it 's as though every time you learned a word , you had to learn your alphabet all over again |
| 26 | ‘ I think that if you had a word with him , Father … ’ |
| 27 | I r You had a word with him did n't you ? |
| 28 | So if you had a word with Liz I bet she 'd be delighted to give you permission for the kids to visit the old family home . ’ |
| 29 | they are now , perhaps if you had a word with them |
| 30 | This is an example of a SUFFIX , which enables you to take a word and build another word from it . |