Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister Katya and his mother Lydia were both slender , green-eyed brunettes , and his father , a silver-haired man with icy blue eyes , barely had a civil word to say to his successful son . |
| 2 | The Adjutant , however , had a good word to say . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His wife definitely was aware of the relationship and never had a good word to say about Mary . |
| 6 | It seemed to be a feature of the case that no one had a good word to say for Nigel Steen . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) may smile ; he is probably one of those who encouraged the cynical use of the community charge and never had a good word to say for it . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , thought Henry grimly as he passed 4021a , his coffee threshing around dangerously in its plastic beaker , and Henry Farr had a great deal to say to Ian McEwan as well . |
| 9 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 10 | How to define the topic for discussion is obviously a difficult one , as Nash admitted in his own study , which had ostensibly a broader subject for its title , but which also had a great deal to say about jokes . |
| 11 | We never found anyone who had a bad word to say against Tony . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was a very warm hearted and generous man who was never spiteful and never had a bad word to say about anybody . ’ |
| 13 | The avid readers of the N C V O News will have spotted reference to the fact that we shall be moving offices from next June , and of course , the Treasurer had a fair bit to say about this earlier on . |