Example sentences of "his idea [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Petrakov is in an understandable hurry , but his idea for a short-cut to a convertible currency could bring a wild ride . |
| 2 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that crackpot Mark Lemon with his idea for a comic magazine . |
| 4 | Algora managed to sell them his idea for a multi-media show about VR , and The Memory Palace was born . |
| 5 | He 'd read up about George Joseph Smith , he said , after he 'd got his idea for a show . |
| 6 | I am not sure whether he received any evidence from anybody else — from the Museums and Galleries Commission , or from any board of trustees or any director — to support his idea for a period of five years . |
| 7 | Next year , he 's hoping his idea for a bop of the hops will strike a better note with the council . |
| 8 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 9 | At his first diocesan conference he told them his idea of a bishop 's job . |
| 10 | This was n't his idea of a proper place for his band to play . |
| 11 | Even before Desmond Boal stepped down from the chairmanship of the Party to advocate his idea of a federal Ireland , the Party was very much what even DUP activists admit to have been ‘ Paisley 's fan club ’ . |
| 12 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 13 | The result was better , but not his idea of a distinguished author . |
| 14 | Somebody , an entertainer himself , once said to me that his idea of a perfect talk show host was someone you do n't remember seeing at the end of the programme . |
| 15 | Ben Lowe found the organization the perfect place for helping develop his idea of a ‘ non-sectarian ’ national newspaper , so he joined as well . |
| 16 | When John Major first promoted his idea of a classless society in Gt . |
| 17 | How does a biographer give his idea of a true picture of a person ? |
| 18 | His idea of a day out was to be driven to Heathrow , to watch the aircraft landing and taking off . |
| 19 | I suppose it 's his idea of a pun . |
| 20 | Instead he was in tweeds and brogues , his idea of a country outfit . |
| 21 | Was he a savage creature with evil designs on me or was it his idea of a joke ? |
| 22 | Not his idea of a Saturday nights entertainment . |
| 23 | If he had had to correlate the conduct of the second Punic War with the decentralization of the Roman state — with its municipia and coloniae — and with the ever-changing pattern of the Italian alliances , he would soon have discovered that his idea of a mixed constitution in Rome was almost a fiction . |
| 24 | " His idea of a party trick is to tickle his wife until she wets her knickers . |
| 25 | Dave perhaps , his idea of a joke . |
| 26 | He 'll have Nahum talking until dawn about his idea of a mission for the gipsies . ’ |
| 27 | His idea of a minimum deterrent is to maintain 2,500 warheads . |
| 28 | Basically Pope Adrian confined his idea of a Papal State to a smallish area , that of the old Byzantine duchy of Rome with the duchy of Spoleto to the east . |
| 29 | ‘ It was his idea of a good joke ! ’ |
| 30 | But his idea of a merger was quite different from the Allied proposal , which would have ruled out the possibility of a provisional French government and subordinated de Gaulle to Giraud . |