Example sentences of "[noun] have a [adj] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered buying an ‘ Orange ’ Protestant newspaper in Enniskillen and reading the editor 's lament that no English literary type had a good word to say about Presbyterian loyalists . |
| 2 | It is not only that no one on the planet has a bad word to say about Sybil : people trip over their superlatives . |
| 3 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 4 | ‘ I got a women member of the production team to have a discreet word with his wife . |
| 5 | Even Albert Piggott had a good word to say for the dying man , as he drank his half-pint of bitter at The Two Pheasants . |
| 6 | Policeman having a little word with a sa , motorcyclist down here by the looks of it ! |
| 7 | So Travis stayed the night on their couch , with the only bonus for him being that , bleary-eyed and hung-over the next morning , he had a chance to have a brief word with Rosemary before she went to her computer programmer 's job . |
| 8 | This gives me the chance to have a last word on the World Cricket Cup final . |
| 9 | Now come and meet Heather ; she 's in the dining-room having a last word with the catering people . ’ |
| 10 | By 10 o'clock there were signs of drunkenness and the Manager had a quiet word with the Junior to put away the bottles or they 'd be there all night . |
| 11 | Despite all that , few people have a bad word for Teddy . |
| 12 | Do stay with us , John , because I think this man has a good word to say . |
| 13 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 14 | Some languages have a freer word order and use other devices to signal the difference between S , V and O. |
| 15 | It was a quarter to eight when she stuck her head into the kitchen to have a quick word with Nettie before dinner . |