Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [pron] both " in BNC.

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1 Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts .
2 She could n't have it both ways .
3 He could n't have it both ways .
4 You ca n't have it both ways .
5 You ca n't have it both ways . ’
6 Well , you ca n't have it both ways .
7 I mean you ca n't have it both ways
8 Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ?
9 previous track record in Europe , and Councillor , you ca n't have it both ways .
10 They ca n't have it both ways .
11 Well they ca n't have it both ways if they can afford to save money they can , but if they do n't , then stay in the centre
12 You ca n't have it both ways .
13 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 .
14 He really can not have it both ways .
15 Rooney can not have it both ways .
16 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
17 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
18 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 .
19 Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers .
20 Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways .
21 The Minister can not have it both ways .
22 He can not have it both ways .
23 They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways .
24 The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register .
25 The Secretary of State can not have it both ways .
26 He can not have it both ways .
27 The Opposition can not have it both ways .
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