Example sentences of "[vb past] up the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rashid and Shahid cooked up the idea while serving customers at the Sitar in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 2 | Stirling then dreamed up the idea of a true-to-life rehearsal against shipping at Port Suez , without bothering to inform the Navy . |
| 3 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 4 | Radio One DJ Jakki Brambles had the bright idea of getting Jason to record As Time Goes By after she and producer Jonathan Ruffle dreamed up the idea of broadcasting her show from Morocco to mark the film 's 50th anniversary . |
| 5 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 6 | Derek Christoffer , from Maghull Chapel , dreamed up the idea and another member , Paulette Franklin , provided the words and music for the presentation about the Easter Story through the eyes of Mary , Jesus and St Peter . |
| 7 | Adverts continued for holiday trips to France , Holland and Belgium , but no one knows who or how many people took up the idea . |
| 8 | Sir Roy Griffiths took up the idea , under a different name , in 1988 in specifying that ‘ no person should be discharged without a clear package of care devised and without being the responsibility of a named care worker . ’ |
| 9 | After the Second World War , American scientists , Herbert Simon and Alan Newell , took up the idea that the computer could embody intelligence . |
| 10 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 11 | In 1963 Vine and Matthews , two Cambridge geophysicists , took up the idea of sea-floor spreading and linked it with data on the palaeomagnetic anomalies observed along mid-oceanic ridges ( Fig. 2.12 ) . |
| 12 | It also thought up the idea of converting public debt into more or less permanent debt at fixed interest , the system known as funding . |
| 13 | Who thought up the idea that the payment mechanism — the Letter of Credit — should be independent from the underlying sales contract ? |
| 14 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 15 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |
| 16 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 17 | Jubilant , most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again , but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan . |
| 18 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 19 | But in the end the sub-committee gave up the idea ( to the regret of some members ) , and the full committee agreed . |
| 20 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |
| 21 | I do n't think Irina gave up the idea of finding me a suitable partner , until Bill died . |
| 22 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 23 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 24 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 25 | De Valois summed up the ideas of these two great choreographers by saying : ‘ Only synchronisation of arms and legs will give symmetry to step and pose , strength to the jump , speed to the pirouettes , calm to the adage and spaciousness to the dance . ’ |
| 26 | Some while later Colonel James Churchward picked up the idea of Mu . |
| 27 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 28 | Cigarette companies picked up the idea a hundred years later and included romances in each packet of cigarettes . |