Example sentences of "never had [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but she never had it before ! |
| 2 | That was the trouble with money , in Yorkshire : you never had it now . |
| 3 | Two years earlier , George Meany , chairman of the combined American unions , the AFL-CIO , proclaimed that American labour had ‘ never had it so good ’ — which was true . |
| 4 | For some it was a reassuring catch-phrase like ‘ You Never Had It So Good ’ . |
| 5 | Galbraith 's The Affluent Society was published in 1958 , shortly after Macmillan had reminded his fellow countrymen that they had ‘ never had it so good ’ . |
| 6 | Harold ( Never Had It So Good ) Macmillan , Minister of Housing and Local Government , introduced a scheme in 1954 to help people buy houses through building societies who were allowed to advance a larger proportion of the price , now rapidly soaring , than hitherto . |
| 7 | The Macmillan era in the late 1950s and early 1960s , with its catching slogan ‘ You never had it so good ’ was an appropriate optimistic backcloth for a great surge forward in the provision of consumer credit [ said Sir Gordon Borrie in that Rathbone Memorial Lecture ] . |
| 8 | The post-war career has a somewhat familiar periodicity : success at housing , double-dealing over Suez , the ‘ never had it so good ’ heyday as premier , the ‘ night of the long knives ’ , Christine Keeler and the trauma of the resignation . |
| 9 | THE DEATH of rationing signalled the beginning of Never Had It So Good Britain , and Quaternass creator Nigel Kneale cashed in on this by adapting Orwell 's nightmare Stalinist futurevision for Sunday evening viewing . |
| 10 | This period , under the banner of a social democratic ideology , having its roots in the increased economic growth and general affluence of Harold Macmillan 's ‘ never had it so good ’ ethos in the previous period , but also in the contradictions this brought about , saw a massive extension of the social services , intended to attack the structural roots of inequality and poverty , which had interestingly been ‘ rediscovered ’ despite the country 's apparent wealth . |
| 11 | And so , in spite of our nostalgia for the days when Premier Harold Macmillan declared that Britain had ‘ never had it so good ’ , there was nothing at all unusual in the BMA 's diagnosis of the appalling state of morals in 1961 : |
| 12 | Steptoe never had it so good . |
| 13 | Radio brought the main news from the outside world ; nuclear tests in the Pacific , civil rights marches in America , the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the " never had it so good " era in Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ I never had it so good , ’ says newly-wed Jerzy Mustajew . |
| 15 | All of us felt a long way from the happy days when ‘ we never had it so good ’ . |