Example sentences of "[verb] get [adj] idea " in BNC.

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1 Yes erm , we 've actually linked with a firm of independent mortgage brokers erm so rather than being tied to a particular building society as most estate agents are erm what they will do is they 'll shop around and tell you which lenders are offering the best terms and particularly good schemes at any one time erm , it 's literally free information they simply phone you up and say get some idea of what your salary is and what your requirements are and then they 'll send through some information for you .
2 eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for
3 And she 'd got modern ideas , and all — about married women being slaves , and what not — though to my way of thinking it 's always a toss-up which is the slave .
4 Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back .
5 I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’
6 So somehow you , you , you , you 've got to get these ideas through th that you you 've recognized that it , it 's , it 's necessary to move on beyond the pol the moderate policies of the United Front but you ca n't be seen to be doing that .
7 he 's beginning to get some ideas as to what
8 ‘ People do get strange ideas , ’ he says .
9 But if , if you 've got that idea of what Mao 's idea of excess is you know that you can have excesses then you go f forward and then you come back there
10 Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children
11 ‘ I 've got one idea , but you 're not going to like it . ’
12 They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically .
13 When Shepherd & wedderburn 's Paul Hally and Graham Barnet first suggested setting up Connections , a ‘ corporate finance marketing forum ’ in the form of a quarterly newsletter , ‘ we were very cautious and circumspect , simply going round saying ‘ we 've got this idea , we think it might work ’ , ’ said Hally .
14 ‘ Actually , ’ said Zach , ‘ I 've got another idea brewing .
15 ‘ I hope you 've got another idea . ’
16 Likewise , you look at any of the other scores that we had fairly high up , for example you rate your plant it 's a possibility there that you 've got you know you 've got these ideas that you 're not putting forward that you could do and develop that side of .
17 ‘ So if you 've got any ideas … ’
18 but er we 've got different ideas on how , like like I myself
19 I 'm young , and I 've got fresh ideas and strong opinions .
20 And now I 've got some idea .
21 Oh okay I 've got some idea .
22 ‘ Does that mean you 've got some idea — ? ’
23 Just so that I 've got some idea of er
24 We 've got some idea as to why , why we found it difficult to read .
25 From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations .
26 Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them .
27 Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from .
28 From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations .
29 ‘ I 've got some ideas on ’
30 I 've got some ideas I 'd like to discuss . ’
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