Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adv] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had a pretty good idea what they wanted to discuss with me . |
| 3 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 4 | I had a much better idea — Khat . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've a pretty good idea , now that I know of his existence . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a pretty good idea of how you see me . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works , I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me . |
| 9 | By now I have a fairly clear idea about the binding formula Anya used . |
| 10 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 11 | I have a very good idea who they will be and the bets are already placed , so for a bit more inside information , watch this space . |
| 12 | If you buy a food labelled ‘ wholemeal bread ’ , ‘ beef stew and dumpling ’ or ‘ fish fingers ’ you 've a pretty good idea what 's inside . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 15 | Now you suggested you had a very good idea you said we could cut it up into twelfths . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You have a very limited idea of creativity if you imagine that critics are n't real people . |
| 18 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 19 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 20 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 21 | Had Charles looked the other way — south , over the town bridge — we have a very good idea of exactly what he would have seen , thanks to a contemporary engraving by Abraham Crocker . |
| 22 | The important thing in dealing with our self-image is that we recognise that we are different creatures with different skills and abilities , and that we have a very realistic idea of what our skills and inabilities actually are . |
| 23 | By understanding the way the Greeks separated various facets of love we have a much better idea of where God places his emphasis . |
| 24 | Forster 's main concern is emotional freedom , and he has a much larger idea of it than Jane Austen . |
| 25 | Although he had a reasonably good idea of what went on between men and women , so far he had never even kissed a girl . |
| 26 | He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it . |
| 27 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 28 | But he had a very clear idea of the manner in which his Council should be conducted . |