Example sentences of "put [pers pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 2 | Put it this way . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you ai n't got a brother no more . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Put it this way , ’ says D c Muggleton , ‘ Sixty-five per cent of all the antique dealers in this town are known to us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 6 | He made it clear that this was his target when he said yesterday : ‘ Put it this way , if there was a chance of winning the championship and I did n't think I might just do it , then I would n't be normal , would I ? |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way … the fans can go to see a good fight between me and Razor Ruddock at Earls Court on October 31 — or they can go to see Bruno win on a cut against Coetzer . ’ |
| 8 | Adds Taki : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 9 | Put it this way , Bill : if you can come up with something from Emor — despatches , that sort of thing — I 'd really appreciate it . |
| 10 | Put it this way , if I had children of my own at school , I would be very , very worried if they had a teacher like me . |
| 11 | How is it then I put it this way . |
| 12 | G.C. Allen , the doyen of British Japanologists , put it this way ‘ although government fostered growth in Japan = = it certainly did not and could not prescribe the policy to follow ’ ( 1981 p.192 , italics added ) . |
| 13 | A 30-year-old married company director explains : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 14 | ‘ Put it this way . |
| 15 | Put it this way , you 're probably at more risk of dying crossing the road . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you claim to be able to derive information from internal visual images which you believe to directly correspond to the phenomenal world . ’ |
| 17 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 18 | Well okay , put it this way , there 's a big dispute . |
| 19 | Hans Tietmayer , then Deputy President Elect of the Bundesbank , put it this way as early as June 1991 : ‘ A single currency requires a single bank which must be matched by a single government and a single state . ’ |
| 20 | Put it this way : in Danu , even with FAKINTIL on the way out , with my history it was like I possessed a personal qualification : doctor , lawyer , accountant , except I was not one of those but a traitor . |
| 21 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |
| 22 | Put it this way , it looked like something Clint Eastwood would n't have minded finding on his Christmas tree . |
| 23 | Well put it this way , if we were compelled to find the savings they ask , that is the only way we could do it . |
| 24 | Put it this way if I was having a problem with a member of my staff , or was , and we felt we wanted your help then you would come in and talk to them |
| 25 | ‘ Put it this way , Donna . |
| 26 | Put it this way : it could be the new , reformulated Coca-Cola that almost destroyed a franchise , or the crystal clear Pepsi that created one . |
| 27 | Well put it this way |
| 28 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 29 | Put it this way , things could n't possibly be this bad again … could they ? |
| 30 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |