Example sentences of "have it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any man who hindered the Admiralty work would have it hot and heavy " . |
| 2 | oh you can have it hot |
| 3 | She had asked if they could have it private , early or late , but had been told they must join the club , for which there was a waiting list and a subscription . |
| 4 | They let friends have it cheap . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , the house is a dump , but the boss lets me have it cheap . |
| 6 | Could we have it non-residential ? |
| 7 | Oh have you got , can you have it louder and quieter ? |
| 8 | Ten quid 'll have it fixed I expect . |
| 9 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |
| 10 | I 'll have it discreet , I 'll have it on my tie |
| 11 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 12 | You can have it that way up or |
| 13 | Did he have it that time ? |
| 14 | Yeah I 'll have it that way , I do n't like it the other way up . |
| 15 | She 's got to , to , I mean , she could have it that loud at ten o'clock at night , she just does n't , she does n't think . |
| 16 | I think she was beginning to think she would have it black after all . |
| 17 | You 'll want somewhere where you can either have it hanging |
| 18 | So I 'd rather have it four times |
| 19 | Then I should have it one time or another . |
| 20 | It looks terrible it does , I 'd have it one way or the other |
| 21 | So they do n't say you know it , it 's like in York you 'll have it worse than somewhere like here cos we can see the careers officers running around |
| 22 | Wherever he is he 'll have it two minutes later . ’ |
| 23 | Then we 'll have it all sorted out . ’ |
| 24 | You can have it all , we were told ; even eternal life was promised . |
| 25 | ‘ Cute he ai n't , but you ca n't have it all . ’ |
| 26 | Conservatives ca n't have it all ways . |
| 27 | ‘ You two wo n't have it all your own way with the girls when he gets home . ’ |
| 28 | Cavalry did not have it all their own way . |
| 29 | They did n't have it all their own way at the Royal Variety Show last night . |
| 30 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |