Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already interviewed Norman Tebbit about his exclusion from the afternoon 's debate on Europe — ' ’ Diabolical liberty ’ , says Norman , in conference outrage' — and tried unsuccessfully to have a word with Sir Charles Webb-Bowen . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better have a word , ’ said the Brigadier , withdrawing his head and opening the door . |
| 3 | Yes , as soon as I hear from the Factory , we 'd better have a word with Mr James Pegg . ’ |
| 4 | I thought I 'd better have a word with you about the incredibly clever trick-ending . |
| 5 | You 'd better have a word with him . |
| 6 | I 'd better have a word with him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Joe went downstairs to have a word with the Beavis family , to let them know he had a young woman upstairs and why . |
| 10 | Michael Banks grinned and went across to have a word with Lesley-Jane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |
| 13 | ‘ They wanted ter 'ave a word wiv Joe . |