Example sentences of "[to-vb] it both [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You dream about scoring at Anfield — but to do it both ends and to silence the Kop is a fantastic feeling . ’ |
| 2 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 3 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 4 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 5 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |
| 6 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 7 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 8 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 10 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |
| 11 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 12 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |