Example sentences of "have a pretty good idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 2 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 3 | After eating dairy produce for a week , you should have a pretty good idea about whether it suited you or not . |
| 4 | Robyn gives them a wry look as she approaches , having a pretty good idea of what they want . |
| 5 | ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be . |
| 6 | Yes , it 's it 's he is supposed to be finding out whose whose whose getting the British Council Programme , but the Eurostep people to know ought to have a pretty good idea of all the Eurostep receivers . |
| 7 | If you buy a food labelled ‘ wholemeal bread ’ , ‘ beef stew and dumpling ’ or ‘ fish fingers ’ you 've a pretty good idea what 's inside . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've a pretty good idea , now that I know of his existence . |
| 9 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 10 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 11 | Oh , she had a pretty good idea : she only needed to go back to Felix Road or even Nelson Close , where she said she lived , to find out . |
| 12 | I had a pretty good idea what they wanted to discuss with me . |
| 13 | A meeting of all the tourists would be summoned straightaway ( Ashenden felt a pair of unblinking blue eyes upon him ) — summoned to meet somewhere in the hotel ( the Manager nodded again — the St John 's Suite was free ) , and Morse himself would then address the group and tell them as much or as little as he wanted to tell them , believing , he admitted , that Rumour had probably lost little of her sprinting speed since Virgil 's time , and that most of the tourists already had a pretty good idea of what had happened . |
| 14 | These are fairly standard issue Japanese replacement Strat pickups mated to a five-way switch and the usual controls , so you have a pretty good idea how they sound . |
| 15 | Having already had a hand in preparing the Suntory team for the national play-offs at the end of last season , when they finished in the top eight , the two Canadian stalwarts have a pretty good idea as to what lies ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ I have a pretty good idea of how you see me . ’ |
| 17 | I have a pretty good idea what Charlotte 's just-a-handful of also ran last-among-equals might be , although the press release does not name them for fear of diminishing the glory of Verbier 's triumph . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of fine forensic work will not be revealed until charges are brought to court , but the investigators have a pretty good idea about the sources of the case . |