Example sentences of "have it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel .
2 Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax .
3 Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review .
4 Rumour has it that last season their manager dressed a dozen tailor 's dummies in Aston Villa strips for his team to practise their passing and dribbling sills .
5 One estimate has it that British ELT materials are available in more than 100 countries .
6 Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure .
7 The Peavey ( retailing at £315 ) has a definite price advantage over the Crate , but has it any other advantages ?
8 Nor has it any more to do with Peter 's reforms than might perhaps justify an editorial footnote .
9 about ten now and they 're all in this white ones are metric , she said what the hell 's this she said , I mean I 've had it thirty four , five years something like that , forty years
10 and we 'd had it that long and er it 's stopped having any
11 ‘ And you would n't have had it any other way . ’
12 said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK
13 What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug .
14 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 .
15 I 'm an easy-going sort of fellow , but if you 're here on business , let's have it all official .
16 Ca n't have it all runny
17 you can have it nine thousand if you pay six into the fund and another three thousand .
18 I goes of course Derek would n't have it any other way .
19 ‘ I would n't have it any other way , ’ he said , holding out his hand to seal the bargain .
20 ‘ The President has insisted he will personally pay the ransom , wo n't have it any other way , ’ said Odell .
21 They know the job is challenging and from time to time frustrating : they probably would n't have it any other way .
22 Christmas may now be more hectic than in most families , but John and Veronica would n't have it any other way .
23 But he would n't have it any other way .
24 This is Marguerite 's home and I would n't have it any other way .
25 The point of that scene , and of this whole great play , is to examine the strange moment when great people just do n't have it any more .
26 Oh it 'll have it three thousand two hundred was the loan .
27 Like using pastels , you just rub it on with your finger and get really subtle blend of there so , you can have it plain black and white or brilliant red or you know , very subtle , so you can get all sorts of paint effects on them okay ?
28 Er then he , there 's only three houses in the road that he lived in , , the next one along the road came up for auction and he sold his station and moved up to that and he said he 's just bought the one at the end of the road now which is er seven hundred and fifty thousand he paid for it , a hundred and fifty thousand to have it interior decorated .
29 But Sinclair hit back : ‘ Derek had it easy last year and his place was almost guaranteed .
30 The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact .
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