Example sentences of "[adv] have [art] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he particularly look at what the French are doing in terms of tax concessions to encourage the viability of such an environmentally friendly fuel , and will he perhaps have a word with our right hon. Friend the Chancellor on that subject ? |
| 2 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 3 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |
| 4 | Better have a word with her about the domestic arrangements . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better have a word , ’ said the Brigadier , withdrawing his head and opening the door . |
| 6 | Yes , as soon as I hear from the Factory , we 'd better have a word with Mr James Pegg . ’ |
| 7 | I thought I 'd better have a word with you about the incredibly clever trick-ending . |
| 8 | You 'd better have a word with him . |
| 9 | I 'd better have a word with him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I went down to have a word with the promotion yesterday and er we have er come to terms and er we are all ready to go for next year . |
| 12 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 13 | One or two of someone else , probably Paviour himself , but of course we have n't got him on file , and these are where you 'd expect ‘ em , on the door , where you might well finger it if you just looked in to have a word with the incumbent , so to speak . ’ |
| 14 | The ceiling obviously had a word with Mr X , who was note perfect the next day . |
| 15 | At the moment they only had the word of Nicola 's husband for what had happened . |
| 16 | I 've already had a word with the vicar and made a provisional booking for Friday afternoon . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've already had a word with Sister Concepta . |
| 18 | And you 've already had a word with them ? |
| 19 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 20 | " Why not have a word with the director ? " |
| 21 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 22 | When the Macedonians broke away from ex-Yugoslavia last year , the man who was then Greece 's foreign minister , Antonis Samaras , told his EC colleagues that the new state could not have the word ‘ Macedonia ’ in its name . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just having a word with Personnel , ’ he explained . |
| 24 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll just have a word with him , Chief Inspector . |
| 26 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 27 | But first I must just have a word with you about … ’ |
| 28 | Nobody wanted to stroke a Gnome , except perhaps another Gnome , He thought he might just have a word with Caspar to see if Fenella could be brought along to his , Inchbad 's , bed that very night . |
| 29 | Let me just have a word with |
| 30 | I 'll just have a word with my chief accountant |