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

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1 She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years
2 Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well
3 I 've had it thirty years in my garden .
4 You 've only had it two minutes .
5 He 's had it two years , but
6 If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't .
7 I 've had it five times .
8 I 've had it three years .
9 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 .
10 That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect .
11 Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt .
12 So I 'd rather have it four times
13 Wherever he is he 'll have it two minutes later . ’
14 Conservatives ca n't have it all ways .
15 ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’
16 I mean , they ca n't have it all ways !
17 I shall have it all ways . ’
18 Colonel really ca n't have it all ways .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ .
22 He really can not have it both ways .
23 She could n't have it both ways .
24 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 .
25 Rooney can not have it both ways .
26 As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’
27 You ca n't have it both ways .
28 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
29 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
30 You ca n't have it both ways . ’
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