Example sentences of "[adv] have it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've only had it two minutes . |
| 2 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 3 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 4 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
| 5 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 6 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
| 7 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 8 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 9 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 10 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 11 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
| 12 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
| 13 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 14 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
| 15 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
| 17 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 18 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
| 19 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 20 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
| 21 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 22 | It was very difficult misses , you always have it both ends of your , go on spit it out , spit it out , go on , you 've got a mouthful there . |
| 23 | Usually have it half way do n't they ? |
| 24 | So I 'd rather have it four times |
| 25 | yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them |
| 26 | Conservatives ca n't have it all ways . |
| 27 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 28 | I mean , they ca n't have it all ways ! |
| 29 | Colonel really ca n't have it all ways . |
| 30 | Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way . |