Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , the Greeks had a word for it |
| 2 | Writers have sometimes brought in the phrase ‘ The Greeks had a word for it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Do the Greeks have a word for it ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think the beTrobi have a word for it . |
| 8 | 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 . |