Example sentences of "[vb past] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 2 | We gave her a score of 100 to start with , and deducted 10 per cent of her running total each time we found a word spelt rong . |
| 3 | When it reported the result of the second engagement , it used a word which the Philistines in their terror had applied to what God had done to the Egyptians . |
| 4 | The Legion used a word to describe any sort of menial duty to do with tidying , cleaning and arranging , ‘ corvée ’ . |
| 5 | But they are — ’ Suragai used a word Burun did not understand , then corrected himself , ‘ — imaginary . |
| 6 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 7 | The students used a word processing program for the questionnaire . |
| 8 | There was a long , rather embarrassed silence during which Jack sensed that neither of the Shepherds believed a word they were saying , and were probably secretly scoffing at them . |
| 9 | I never saw any acknowledgement nor received a word of thanks . |
| 10 | Several times she stopped , put down her shoe-parcel , and signalled a word with her flags . |
| 11 | She accepted the glass and muttered a word of thanks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'ad a word wiv George about that cat , ’ he told her . |
| 14 | To this end she never wasted a word or gesture and when she saw Wexford she neither greeted him nor even lifted her head , but said to one of her little girls : |
| 15 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 16 | Before she got a word out Guy seized her gently by the shoulders and turned her around , so that he stood between her and Ralf . |
| 17 | Blake sought a word to describe this nightmare . |
| 18 | Stirling never breathed a word about it to anyone on the Ops. side here . |
| 19 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 20 | The rest of the maids had been threatened with hell-fire and damnation if they breathed a word . |
| 21 | The intent of the politician was of course to create a feeling of obligation , which he undoubtedly hoped would stand him in good stead at the next election , but such feelings were all the stronger because the shrewd political manager never breathed a word about a bargain or the anticipated political return . |
| 22 | None of them breathed a word . |
| 23 | He never breathed a word to Laura because he knew her concern would force him to stop work immediately . |
| 24 | An anguished groan escaped her , the certain knowledge hers that both she and Cara could say goodbye to that interview for ever if she breathed a word of the truth to him . |
| 25 | She looked at him but made no reply ; then she went out escorted , one on each side , by the two men , and neither of them spoke to her nor exchanged a word with each other until they were crossing the main road , when seemingly out of nowhere stepped a policeman , and they all came to a halt . |
| 26 | No , we never exchanged a word . |
| 27 | Neither she nor Millie exchanged a word during the journey , evidence of the seriousness of the situation felt by them both . |
| 28 | They hardly exchanged a word . |
| 29 | In the business , you never heard a word against Michael Banks . |
| 30 | I never heard a word |