Example sentences of "had [adj] ideas " in BNC.

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1 The band had strong ideas about production .
2 Amalgamated Metal , a ‘ rag bag of commodity trading and industrial activities ' , was quoted , but 51% of the shares were owned by the Patino family , who had strong ideas of what their finance director should be doing .
3 It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company .
4 When Adeane left , Charles had definite ideas about the sort of man he wanted to replace him , but it was six months before the right man could be found .
5 I had brave ideas of taking forever off and immersing myself in motherhood but , after 10 months , I could n't wait to get back , ’ she says .
6 The first speaker had clear ideas of what constituted quality training .
7 DIRECTOR Stephen Rawsthorne and writer Steve Chambers had clear ideas what they did n't want to do in turning D.H .
8 She kicked her trainers under the seat , in case Brown Owl had funny ideas like Mum .
9 He at least had some ideas for Revenge .
10 Different thinkers had different ideas concerning the nature and significance of the temporal mode of existence .
11 The new Conservative government in 1970 had different ideas and not surprisingly favoured a competing set of commercial stations .
12 While she thought black was the smartest colour a girl her age could wear , he had different ideas .
13 Somehow my two feet had different ideas about direction .
14 I thought it was going to be a holiday home , but my husband had different ideas . ’
15 I kept my window wide open to encourage them but my mother had different ideas .
16 However , it soon emerged that the DES had different ideas on the management of public sector higher education and by the spring of 1981 it had become generally known that it favoured the virtual cutting of the link between the local authorities and the polytechnics and the colleges and institutes of higher education substantially involved in offering advanced further education .
17 . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change .
18 ‘ However , the weather-gods had different ideas . ’
19 In the meantime , I had attended a special engine-handling course at Rolls-Royce , Derby , and we had different ideas about the engine settings .
20 But Adam Burns had different ideas .
21 But Saracens had different ideas .
22 they tried to get the score moving as best they could … but Derbyshire had different ideas
23 I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime .
24 ‘ He will be called by his surname at his public school , ’ said Lewis , who though poor had grand ideas , as befitted the future owner of Wyvis Hall and its acres .
25 She , even though virgin , had imaginative ideas about what they should do , mainly picked up from conversations she 'd had with Justinette and Elice .
26 ‘ Dunfermline were hungrier , had more ideas and were the better side in tricky conditions .
27 I mean some of the fascist ideas surely Hitler who had fascist ideas
28 Although British intelligence had shrewd ideas of the launching sites of these abominations they were difficult targets even for the RAF .
29 I had several ideas .
30 I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people .
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