Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] word " in BNC.

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1 I would emphasize the word partial .
2 Working time , including overtime , should be decided by local voluntary agreement and I do emphasize the word voluntary .
3 Of a sort that would make the word ’ hovel ’ sound to grand .
4 Yes , so you can get , once you 've got your tenth one , if you can make the word that 's it
5 To use the word in its secondary , neutral sense would neutralise the word ‘ appropriation , ’ to which assumption is here equated , and would lead to a number of strange results .
6 Of course , he could want the word ‘ abverb' ( as in ‘ pleasur ab ly' ) , but I so much doubt it that I 'd bet on it . ’
7 What on earth do you think the word collate means ?
8 I do n't think the word erm erm tt !
9 ‘ I 've got a new manager and agent and I do n't think the word the word ‘ rest ’ is in their vocabulary .
10 Yes , I 'd p , I would personally prefer the word people or parents
11 Lexander did not know the word Junker .
12 If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time .
13 just need to be , och I do n't know the word for it .
14 ‘ Do n't you know the word ?
15 When something 's going round something else , do you know the word ?
16 I suppose we did n't know the word fetish . ’
17 and in it was the word appreciation , now , he 'd probably seen the word before , but he did n't know the word
18 Did you know the word Yorkshire pudding is in the English dictionary ?
19 Pending further research , I can not consider the word in 10.1 to be inconsistent with the language of the rest of the book and therefore evidence of interpolation .
20 ‘ I shall not rise to the inevitable sexism which comes from the Government front bench , ’ replied Ms Armstrong , and since not even today 's siren Labour party can consider the word ‘ silly ’ to be sexist we must assume that the objection is to being described as a woman .
21 we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable .
22 Upon being asked why he shed tears , he replied , ‘ It is indeed true that I do not know a word of the Gita .
23 He may not know a word of Burmese but he will share a fag with the interested Burman who is watching all that is going on , and as they puff away together contentedly , something intangible will pass from the one to the other .
24 They are quite certain I do n't know a word of Greek but even so they 're still very cautious .
25 So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them .
26 The father of a friend of mine who went to visit relatives in Paris told us that he did not know a word of French but spoke the Parmigiano dialect all the time and got on very well .
27 The former may need a word or two said about it .
28 Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces .
29 Also , this approach does not guarantee a word as output , even though parts of the letter string will contain legal combinations of letters .
30 ‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’
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