Example sentences of "[verb] have [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 2 | The first thing to note about the raw strategy is that it dearly wants to have it all . |
| 3 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 5 | ‘ I know that , but when we go away I do n't want it to be for business — I want to have you all to myself . ’ |
| 6 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 7 | and we 'd had it that long and er it 's stopped having any |
| 8 | So he 'd had it all the time . |
| 9 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 10 | For as long as I can remember , I have been fascinated by the U.S.A. From childhood dreams of big cars , space rockets , Pacific coast and cowboys , America seemed to have it all . |
| 11 | Thou'lt hold him as long as anyone can , I see that , but you must not expect to have him all to yourself . |
| 12 | Auriculas are the most desirable of flowers but if you are n't green-fingered , or would like to have them all year round , Carless & Gray sells diy fake-auricula kits which you assemble and paint yourself . |
| 13 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |
| 14 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 15 | Make them understand that they 're not going to have it all their own way . |
| 16 | I can see you 're going to have us all counting grain sacks like traders . |
| 17 | You seem to have it all worked out . ’ |
| 18 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 19 | Well they were highly formal , they , and I would n't have had them any other way . |
| 20 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 21 | We might have had it all , had it not been for that One . ’ |
| 22 | She might not have had it all |
| 23 | Well I 'd have had it all on tape ! |
| 24 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And you would n't have had it any other way . ’ |
| 26 | You do n't have to have them all at one time ? |
| 27 | You would n't have to have them either side like I 've got . |
| 28 | You do n't have to have it all filled right up |
| 29 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 30 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |