Example sentences of "idea [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector .
2 She listened to his advice and bought instead a Welsh pony with the vague idea of attaching it to a trap and doing the shopping in it .
3 If you have decided on this as your opening sequence , you may like the idea of beginning it with a fade in on a close-up of some brightly lit seasonal decoration in a shopping precinct — the face of a life-size Santa would be an ideal way to set the mood .
4 ‘ The idea of stuffing everything into a pig 's stomach put me right off . ’
5 From the need to produce videos of Virgin artists came the idea of distributing them on a commercial basis as well through their own distribution company ; and within two years Virgin were busily developing their own , European version of MTV , Music Box .
6 ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living .
7 Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ .
8 The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club .
9 We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was !
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