Example sentences of "idea of [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 2 | Moira Griffin , of Edgecombe Drive , explained that the death of a homeless man had given her the idea of knitting for the people who use the hostel . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'm too awfully keen on this idea of going for the enemy pilot , ’ Blunt said . |
| 4 | About the same time , Brailsford , who had toyed with the idea of working for the NCF , judged it more harshly : ‘ a blind alley which won t bring us even infinitesimally nearer to peace . ’ |
| 5 | I consider that the idea of charging for The Lifeboat to be very reasonable . |
| 6 | I abandoned the idea of grubbing for a living as an archaeologist and decided to be a teacher : a progressive teacher — by then I had read A S Neill and Herbert Kohl . |