Example sentences of "how [vb mod] i put " in BNC.

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1 We could — how shall I put it ? — dispense with you quite happily . ’
2 I have , how shall I put it , organised an elective affinity for you already .
3 ‘ In fact , it 's permanently in storage and it 's probably the most interesting thing he ever painted , but the subject matter makes it a little , how shall I put it , undesirable for public display . ’
4 ‘ A — how shall I put it ? — sense of everything knowing its place , and keeping to it . ’
5 ‘ Natural enough , I suppose , considering you have me black-listed as — how shall I put it ? — something of a predator . ’
6 Now the G M B parliamentary group is a powerful and influential organization it 's well balanced between front-benchers and back-benchers , between men and women and between the youthful and , how shall I put it , the more experienced and as you would expect , its members are prominent in the attack on this weak , incompetent , and rudderless Conservative government .
7 Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical .
8 ‘ Though if you should hear anything that might be — how shall I put this — um , useful I 'm sure your co-operation will be most favourably looked upon by the prison staff as a whole .
9 Although the idea was suggested by the Führer , it was , how shall I put it , more a flight of fancy than anything else ?
10 SUMMERCHILD : I — how shall I put it , then ? — I assume I meant …
11 Erm , so it is , how shall I put it , erm , unfortunate I think , in , in Shropshire 's view , that they did n't continue along the distribution on the previous basis .
12 Are there any sectors where there are for example triple S Is which are of er how shall I put it , strategic scale , that could influence er the location of a new settlement .
13 Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that .
14 The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate .
15 If it fooled you and you were — how shall I put it ? — intimately involved then it most certainly would have fooled him ! ’
16 Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do .
17 These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital .
18 In particular , if one started to make such systems much more , how shall I put it , tailor the electronics to the purpose , then the cost could be quite low .
19 He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument .
20 It did not — how can I put it ? — lend itself to a faster tempo .
21 How can I put it ? …
22 ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’
23 How can I put the people I love so much through so much pain ?
24 They acquire multiple degrees , purposelessly log facts , or do photoreal drawing after photoreal drawing — each one notable only for its lack of — how can I put it , emotional bite ? ’
25 You never thought that being grown up would mean having to be quite so — how can I put it ?
26 How can I put it ?
27 To him she is — how can I put this ? soon assimilated .
28 But I do n't er How can I put it ?
29 But it 's certainly how can I put it — the silver lining .
30 But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding .
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