Example sentences of "get [adj] idea [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister and I had a hazy idea that he sold rabbit skins from a sort of tray suspended from his neck — but as he was always beautifully neat and clean I do n't know where we got this idea from . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | you 'd have one hell of a row over something daft but it was di got this idea in her mind so I can see now where it 's come from . |
| 4 | but er we 've got different ideas on how , like like I myself |
| 5 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 6 | Just so that I 've got some idea of er |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got some ideas on ’ |
| 12 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 13 | Have you got any idea of the number of things I have to keep track of every day ? |
| 14 | ‘ And have you got any idea of what it is you do to me , Maria ? |
| 15 | Have you got any idea of w what they thought then of the fact that you were all acting , the three quarries , were acting as erm one body ? |
| 16 | ‘ Have you got any idea about this thing ? ’ she called up . |
| 17 | Have you got any idea in your retirement about how you 're going to keep yourself so that your body is not going to be a handicap to you ? |
| 18 | Have they got any ideas about what they want to do in the future ? |
| 19 | " I hope you 're not getting absurd ideas about her . |
| 20 | When you consider that going into the final Test the Australians , renowned for their safe catching in recent times , had missed 24 chances against India 's eight , you get some idea of the home bowler 's dominance over the fragile Indian batting throughout the series . |
| 21 | Add to this the vulgarity of American capitalist culture and the inherent snobbery of English expatriates and you get some idea of what awaited the future Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago . |
| 22 | Add to that breath-taking stops from Kirilovas and Fridikrkas and you get some idea of the man 's contribution . |
| 23 | Simple , work out what you would like to achieve , get some idea of the budget available and consult a specialist in communcation systems . |
| 24 | Add to this the duties and taxes on Guinness Group products sold in Ireland each year ( currently running at around IR£400 million ) and you get some idea of what the grand total must to be . |
| 25 | Someone wants to look at , someone wants to look at that graph , and get some idea of the speed from it , the velocity . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ If I could just listen to your chest , get some idea of what 's going on in there ? ’ |
| 28 | Now if we try and get some idea of what this distance may correspond to , light travels at what sort of speed ? |
| 29 | But ca n't we think about re-phrasing that so we get this idea of this joint statement , some sort of dialogue on |
| 30 | This is before anybody gets any ideas at all . |