Example sentences of "it both " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect . |
| 2 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
| 3 | It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ . |
| 4 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
| 5 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 6 | There are too many club owners who think that they can play it both ways . |
| 7 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 8 | She could n't have it both ways . |
| 9 | Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt . |
| 10 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 11 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 12 | A good Thai meal will be so beautifully balanced and so crammed with flavour and texture that it both satiates and stimulates . |
| 13 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I take it both of you have read the dossier on this man , Kinsella ? ’ he said , giving a brief nod towards the folder in front of him . |
| 16 | As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways . |
| 18 | You ca n't have it both ways . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 21 | Sarah has tried it both ways . |
| 22 | Without it both Marx 's plan for a ‘ total man ’ and his concept of communist are equally inconceivable . ’ |
| 23 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 24 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 25 | ‘ You dream about scoring at Anfield — but to do it both ends and to silence the Kop is a fantastic feeling . ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't have it both ways . ’ |
| 27 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 28 | Could it have it both ways ? |
| 29 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 30 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |