Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a good idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 2 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 3 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 4 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 5 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 6 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 7 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 10 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 11 | I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster . |