Example sentences of "just [verb] a [adj] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just had a quick word with Carole Meadows , ’ Ross told her as he put down the phone . |
| 3 | I was just having a little word with Mr Twomey about his silver for the dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 5 | I 'll just have a quick word with your dad . |
| 6 | You also mention within your document the N H S. Well , let's just have a little word about the N H S. Let's talk about the dedic dedicated staff working in the N H S who have nothing to gain and everything to lose . |
| 7 | " And while you 're there , " said Bigwig , scowling round at the others from under the great sheaf of fur on his head , " I 'll just have a few words with these three . |
| 8 | Just to say a few words fire as usual he did n't actually those those to erm . |
| 9 | I just wanted a wee word with Donald . |
| 10 | ‘ I just wanted a private word . |
| 11 | He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework . |
| 12 | Thank you Next item , Right agenda item three , notes of the Joint Consultative Committee held on the twenty-first of October , nineteen ninety-three , paper B. If I could just say a few words . |
| 13 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 14 | Ian , you were one , , and Tracy , if you could just say a few words . |