Example sentences of "have it [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 He would n't have had it that way .
2 ‘ You 've never had it that way ? ’
3 yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them
4 For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb .
5 That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect .
6 Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt .
7 You can have it that way up or
8 Yeah I 'll have it that way , I do n't like it the other way up .
9 It looks terrible it does , I 'd have it one way or the other
10 Conservatives ca n't have it all ways .
11 ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’
12 I mean , they ca n't have it all ways !
13 I shall have it all ways . ’
14 Colonel really ca n't have it all ways .
15 Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way .
16 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 .
17 It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ .
18 He really can not have it both ways .
19 She could n't have it both ways .
20 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 .
21 Rooney can not have it both ways .
22 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 … ’
23 You ca n't have it both ways .
24 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
25 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
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 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 .
30 Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways .
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