Sentence examples for had put it like from inspiring English sources

It was entirely up to the boys whether they agreed to it, but they knew once their mother had put it like that they had no choice.

I regretted having put it like that.

I doubt soldiers at the time would have put it like that.

In fact, we tend to act, as Saul Klein has put it, like world philanthropists of talent.

But it changed things culturally, too, even if I wouldn't have put it like that at the time.

As Guardian writer Russell Jackson has put it: "Like all great art, this one just throws up more questions than answers".

But a cynic might have put it like this: Mr Bush is out there, his will to defeat the challenger is rising, and the toughest days are yet to come.

I may well have phoned Mr Michel to say that unfortunately Mr Hunt could no longer meet Mr Murdoch, but I don't think I would … have put it like that and I don't remember putting it like that".

From a young age, my parents have encouraged me to work hard, and even though they might not have put it like this, I've learned that if you work hard now, you can enjoy yourself more later.

Performers of her work will have to look hard for an unforgettable pungent phrase (has anyone ever said: only Yasmina Reza could have put it like that?), but not at all hard for singular theatrical shocks, shrewd circumstantial detail and soliloquies that give them a moment in the sun with a big central subject.

Asked about the speech on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Osborne said: "I would not have put it like that.