Example sentences of "have the [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think she has the faintest idea what it would mean to marry a chap without private means , and if she did , I 'm afraid she 'd change her mind . ’ |
| 2 | Silvers has the right idea . |
| 3 | Mr. D. has the right ideas when it comes to hardware . |
| 4 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 5 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 6 | Joe Sharp , director of space research at NASA 's Ames Research Laboratory explains : ‘ Nobody has the foggiest idea of the effect of even 40 per cent or 20 per cent of gravity for extended periods . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Looks like your lover-boy has the same idea . ’ |
| 8 | A hundred yards up the road Howard , our manager , has the bright idea ( which we pay him for ) to ask a local sheriff for a lift . |
| 9 | It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place . |
| 10 | Frank and Betty manage to get out and on to the bonnet , then he has the bright idea of removing a bag of manure from the boot . |
| 11 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 12 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 13 | Others had had the same idea . |
| 14 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 15 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea . |
| 17 | As she did so , Caspar turned with her , and Fenella knew he had had the same idea . |
| 18 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 19 | Other girls have had the same idea , but so far he 's still Mystery Miguel . ’ |
| 20 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 21 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 22 | As calculations go , this one turns out to be surprisingly simple , once somebody has had the original idea . |
| 23 | Although few in the audience could have had the slightest idea of what the songs were about , their power to move was undiminished by the language barrier ; such was their skill in vocal expression that the audience could tell which of the songs were mildly comic . |
| 24 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 25 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 26 | Teldec have had the happy idea of adding the early and littleknown A minor Concerto to this reissue . |
| 27 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 28 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 29 | No sense of a sharing in the social meaning of what was going on emerges , and we daresay the unfortunate teacher , with whose plight we do indeed sympathize , did not have the faintest idea what was afoot . |
| 30 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |