Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] a [adj] idea " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
2 | With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear . |
3 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
4 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
5 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
6 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |