Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 2 | David as a child ‘ sustained my own idea ’ of Roderick Random , the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel , ‘ for a month at a stretch ’ , could see Roderick 's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church , and when Micawber went to the King 's Bench , remembered Roderick 's imprisonment for debt ( chap . |
| 3 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 4 | He expanded his original idea of doing a show on the artist 's late works after the Wall came down , because the people in the former East had never seen Picasso 's paintings . |
| 5 | ( Jennifer Hornsby gave me this idea . ) |
| 6 | ‘ Whatever gave ye that idea ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Whatever gave you that idea ? ’ she said flirtatiously . |
| 9 | ‘ What on earth gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 10 | What on earth gave you that idea ? |
| 11 | Whatever gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Whatever gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No — what gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 15 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 16 | Then I had my great idea ! |
| 17 | Five great Magdalen men who enlarged my very idea of what a learned life should be — P. V. M. Benecke , C. C. J. Webb , J. A. Smith , F. E. Brightman and C. T. Onions … |