Example sentences of "have [verb] this idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Dawkins has taken this idea further by suggesting that the sole purpose for human existence is to allow the further evolution of genes . |
| 2 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 3 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |
| 4 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 8 | As Merrill nodded , Rob went on , ‘ Well , my mother will be home from her cruise on Saturday , and I 've had this idea … |
| 9 | Now people will listen to you and they 'll have had , had their own personal goals but they feel not worthy of expressing it anyway because they think , well I 've had this idea , I 'm probably up the creek , and they never say anything . |
| 10 | I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’ |
| 11 | The first phase of the battle was to coat the shellac on a cardboard base ; in fact , the Neophone Company of 1904 had tried this idea . |
| 12 | ‘ Lee 's got this idea , ’ said Lee 's Mum , ‘ that if he lets Caspar out , someone down at the farm in the village will shoot him . ’ |
| 13 | if , if , if he says I 've done it in class and I do n't want to finish it off at home , that 's fair enough , but what 's gon na happen when he gets to secondary level and he 's got this idea that if he does n't finish it in class , that 's it , he does n't do it , he wo n't finish learning the topic |
| 14 | It 's funny you know , I 've reading , I 'm reading Silence of , Silence of the Lambs at the moment and er , you know , it 's got in there , a lot of er , er , mentally ill patient 's have got this idea that , men , men from Mars have . |
| 15 | The scientists at IBM have taken this idea one step further , by using different light frequencies to store extra information at each location . |
| 16 | However , I have excluded this idea as I believe it to be too far fetched . |
| 17 | Russian researchers have complemented this idea . |