Example sentences of "and [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 2 | The solipsist , that is to say , can not get the practice started in the way in which he pretends , by concentrating on the nature of the original sensation and inventing a word to refer to this sensation and to others like it . |
| 3 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |
| 4 | Second , they agree on the conclusion that the solipsist 's charade of concentrating on an experience and pronouncing a word , no matter how fervently , can not succeed in establishing a rule which the solipsist can follow in a new case . |
| 5 | She accepted the glass and muttered a word of thanks . |
| 6 | Several times she stopped , put down her shoe-parcel , and signalled a word with her flags . |
| 7 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 8 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 9 | Someone had better go down and have a word … |
| 10 | I 'll go over and have a word with him . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll go up and have a word with him , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I 'd better go and have a word with her . ’ |
| 13 | I 've arranged to drive out and have a word with the Master tomorrow morning . |
| 14 | Perhaps you should go up and have a word with her , make sure … ! ’ |
| 15 | He would generally stop and have a word or two or listen to her . |
| 16 | ‘ If it was really bad , ’ he said , ‘ I 'd go and have a word . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll go and have a word with him ’ , Lawton said , ‘ but I wo n't push it unless he gets stroppy . ’ |
| 18 | Why do n't you drop by and have a word with her . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll come and have a word around lunchtime , if that 's OK . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd better go and have a word , ’ Matthew said . |
| 21 | I 'll go and have a word with him . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah I'v I 'll come and have a word with her . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd better go and have a word with Mum and Dad . ’ |
| 24 | Look — I 'll go and have a word with Robert . ’ |
| 25 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 26 | I 'll go and have a word with him See what he says . |
| 27 | I 've got , I 've got to go and have a word with Rob about something . |
| 28 | Stand I 'll come and have a word with you in a minute . |
| 29 | She said , now , supposing you had to look up what you just described , you know , in a dictionary , and find a word that everybody would associate with it . |
| 30 | Humans are able to identify and discriminate a word from tens of thousands of other possible words . |