Example sentences of "we have [adv] had it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |
| 3 | No we 'd only had it three or four years when we went to Malton and Pam said then ooh if ever you get rid of this just let me know , it 's just right for me cos she 's only short is n't she ? |
| 4 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 5 | I mean it says it lasts up to two years , we 've only had it on there a year |
| 6 | because we 've hardly had it on . |
| 7 | It 's the ‘ turn ’ of a particular hotel or city , or they choose it because they have a vague idea that it might be rather nice to go to Torquay next year , or even — worst of all — because ‘ We 've always had it there' ! |
| 8 | We 've always had it , the Victorians must have known all about it . |
| 9 | But for axed father-of-two Mark Mewse , the grim message was : ‘ We 've never had it so bad . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Export is a nightmare because of the paperwork and expense of transporting the pottery , but we 've never had it so good up here and Easter Ross is really no further from Tokyo than London . ’ |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend said that we had inflation licked in a way that we had not had it licked for years . |
| 12 | We had never had it so good . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | ‘ We have n't had it so bad for 22 years , ’ fumed Sir Brian Hill , president of the Building Employers Confederation . |
| 15 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 16 | Well we have n't had it too hot , we went down , was it the American Independence day did n't we ? |
| 17 | Cos we have n't had it yet . |
| 18 | Well , he said well we have n't had it . |
| 19 | And er we have n't had it , we have n't received it yet . |
| 20 | We have n't had it for ages have we ? |
| 21 | Indeed , for many of us , we have never had it so good . |
| 22 | We have never had it so good . " |