Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] it this " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Let me put it this way , Sir Robert , if Moodie dreaded our return then he had very little to fear . ’ |
| 6 | Well let me put it this way er it 's the two's company three 's a crowd problem . |
| 7 | Let me put it this way to you Noel |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Oh well if you let me have it this week I 'll let you have it back at the weekend . |
| 13 | 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 . |