Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adv] [adj] idea " in BNC.

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1 Probably for this reason , it has proved a remarkably resilient idea .
2 Uderzo says they preferred not to film in America : ‘ They would have had a very different idea of how to approach the jokes .
3 AT THE OUTSET it must have seemed a superbly simple idea .
4 In some alternate , barely credible dimension , this almost inexplicable first shot in the Great Columbus Wars ( Gerard Depardieu and Jim Dale still to come ) must have seemed a really good idea .
5 er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm
6 At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about .
7 Yeah I mean I think you 're pretty good on those , you know about alternative sources of energy and you 've got a pretty good idea of nuclear power , what it 's about erm you know half life erm Then this gets onto the technical bit .
8 But it 's true I 've got a pretty good idea what should be there .
9 Er , we know that there 's an O and M report coming through , we 've got a pretty good idea what 's in it .
10 ‘ Granted , I ca n't point to a place on the map and say this is where we are , but I 've got a pretty good idea . ’
11 " I 've got a very good idea , " returned Rossmayne with some feeling .
12 Tell you what , I 've got a far better idea .
13 ‘ We 've had a very simple idea , ’ says Jim enthusiastically , ‘ and that 's simply to put all six strings into one packet instead of having six individual packets all being thrown away .
14 Now you 've had a very good idea for fund raising I believe have n't you and it 's something to do with your daddy .
15 You can go from being a total novice to someone who 's got a reasonably good idea by the end of one week .
16 Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too .
17 Jim 's got a fairly clear idea of what he wants to do for BES .
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