Example sentences of "get [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not imagine where you got that idea . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know where , why or how he got that idea , ’ said 77-year-old Mr Hickman , recently honoured for 60 years of preaching . |
| 3 | ‘ Just got that idea . ’ |
| 4 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 5 | dir : I 'm still puzzled about how you got this idea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , ’ said Zach , ‘ I 've got another idea brewing . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope you 've got another idea . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | but er we 've got different ideas on how , like like I myself |
| 17 | As I was saying , erm , so many people have got different ideas . |
| 18 | I 'm young , and I 've got fresh ideas and strong opinions . |
| 19 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 20 | And now I 've got some idea . |
| 21 | Oh okay I 've got some idea . |
| 22 | ‘ Does that mean you 've got some idea — ? ’ |
| 23 | Just so that I 've got some idea of er |
| 24 | We 've got some idea as to why , why we found it difficult to read . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got some ideas on ’ |
| 30 | I 've got some ideas I 'd like to discuss . ’ |