Example sentences of "have it [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pauly Shore , for his part , is militant in his defence of these children that , in his eyes , I spit on : ‘ This generation has it pretty tough . |
| 2 | When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman has it precisely wrong on European policy . |
| 4 | Eliot has it perhaps worse than I have — poor devil . |
| 5 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 6 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 7 | We think that power is a limited resource , and if one person has it then another one ca n't . |
| 8 | If you 've had it easy all the time , as soon as trouble comes , you do n't know how to handle it . |
| 9 | But has he had it since new ? |
| 10 | But he 's had it pretty much since . |
| 11 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 12 | He 'd had it too easy , Jack . |
| 13 | They 've had it too easy , all of them . |
| 14 | There are many who feel prisoners have had it too easy . |
| 15 | It 's nice to be a man ‘ doing ’ the letters pages ; that stroppy strumpet Whiplash had had it too good for too long , but how the two-headed blue-worm of Gulonkerb turns , eh ? |
| 16 | I believe that the large supermarkets have had it too good for too long . |
| 17 | Well we have n't had it too hot , we went down , was it the American Independence day did n't we ? |
| 18 | They 've had it too soft , that 's their trouble . ’ |
| 19 | Let the fire go out last night and we 've had it out all day have n't we ? |
| 20 | Well I have n't , have n't had it out this year . |
| 21 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 22 | But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good . |
| 23 | By the end of 1959 , the economy had improved so much that his oft quoted quip ‘ You 've never had it so good ’ had a ring of truth about it . |
| 24 | Indeed , for many of us , we have never had it so good . |
| 25 | When Prime Minister Macmillan uttered the famous slogan ‘ Some of our people have never had it so good ’ , he had even borrowed the phrase from America . |
| 26 | That 's the optimistic outlook of Bordon businessman Philip Voice , who says he 's never had it so good . |
| 27 | While George Bush promised no new taxes , Clinton said that he would rebuild the economy by penalising high earners who have had it so good for so long . |
| 28 | DAMON HILL , who has progressed from being a hard-up member of a punk rock band to one of Formula One 's most envied drivers , admitted last night that he had never had it so good . |
| 29 | Yet as the war years set in , the landed classes , together with the newly-rich manufacturers , had never had it so good ; Napoleon has been called , not entirely without justification , ‘ The patron saint not only of farmers , but of landlords ’ . |
| 30 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |