Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 3 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 4 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 5 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 6 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 7 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 8 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |