Example sentences of "never had [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking .
2 Have n't you never had them before ?
3 And they never give him the they never give him his tow bar or nothing , he 's never had them back !
4 You 've never had it on .
5 ‘ I 've never had it before .
6 I 've never had it before .
7 I 've never had it before .
8 The other week and I 'd never had it before but er I liked it .
9 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 .
10 But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good .
11 Some will argue that it was the decade when ‘ real ’ music was murdered by Stock , Aitken & Waterman or rap , but on the other hand the ‘ real ’ musician of mature years had never had it so good-Chris De Burgh , Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton never sold so many tickets , or so many records .
12 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 .
13 Indeed , for many of us , we have never had it so good .
14 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 .
15 That 's the optimistic outlook of Bordon businessman Philip Voice , who says he 's never had it so good .
16 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 .
17 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 ’ .
18 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 .
19 Premier Sir Harold once told the nation : ‘ You 've never had it so good . ’
20 But for axed father-of-two Mark Mewse , the grim message was : ‘ We 've never had it so bad . ’
21 ‘ She 's never had it so good .
22 There is much better choice of gear for women , in fact we women have never had it so good .
23 We had never had it so good .
24 Overseas creditors , we might almost say , have never had it so good .
25 " You 've never had it so good . "
26 Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good :
27 The new Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan , combined old-style Tory patriarchy with a definitely new-style endorsement — in the famous ( and misquoted ) ‘ You 've never had it so good ’ speech of July 1957 — of the developing consumer culture that was being imported from America , of which the Teen age was an important spearhead .
28 We have never had it so good . "
29 Bordeaux has never had it so good .
30 Current newcomers to the sport have never had it so easy .
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