Example sentences of "put it this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me put it this way , child . |
| 2 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 3 | No New Ager would put it this way . |
| 4 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 5 | Let's put it this way : because of the occasional lightning strike and buckets of water from the celestial quarter there was little opportunity for sevens hookers to ply their ancient trade . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll put it this way . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , let's put it this way . |
| 8 | Let me put it this way : presiding over the darkness out of which I had loomed there was a figure , a male shape , with an entirely unmanageable aura , containing such things as beauty , terror , love , filth , and above all power . |
| 9 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 10 | ‘ Let me put it this way , Sir Robert , if Moodie dreaded our return then he had very little to fear . ’ |
| 11 | Well let me put it this way er it 's the two's company three 's a crowd problem . |
| 12 | And there , in order to understand this model , well let's put it this way , I think the easiest way to understand it is to start from the ego . |
| 13 | Let me put it this way to you Noel |
| 14 | He recognizes her but how , how many er , let me put it this way , if the police came to your house to talk to your mother , would you expect them to recognize her , or would you expect him to say , oh my God they 've come ? |
| 15 | Well le let's put it this way . |
| 16 | Erm it 's pretty obvious really you wan na know anything about Christianity , you do n't know it , let's put it this way , you do n't know anything about Christianity unless you know something about Resurrection . |
| 17 | and if you have n't got it you could be there all day on the exam , urgh urgh , and also you 're thinking I 'll put it this way up , that one over that |
| 18 | look , look , may I put it this way , we 're in the directive of being able to point to something which permits the Secretary of State to delegate the function , that what 's it for |
| 19 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 20 | The point , though Hurd did not put it this way , is that Labour 's amendment 27 , seeking to scupper Major 's triumph in excluding Britain from the social chapter , was a complete red herring . |
| 21 | The first is er , erm , well let me put it this way , not the last one of the sessions I did here , but the one before that , there was a huge guy sitting about where Colin is sitting . |
| 22 | well er let me put it this way , if there , if there is good reason , good objective reason for preventing a person competing in the sugar market then article eighty five does n't follow |
| 23 | Let me put it this way , and I think this may please the Noble Lord MacIntosh , there are moments when this House is in danger of being too conservative . |
| 24 | He said , well let's put it this way he said I can get into a Ford and start it without breaking any windows |
| 25 | I 'll put it this way so that you 've not the plaster on your your bruised bit . |
| 26 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 27 | We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present . |
| 28 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |