Example sentences of "have had [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designer Jasper Conran has had another idea . |
| 2 | When Michael Marks first wheeled his Penny Bazaar barrow into Leeds Market in 1884 , he can have had little idea that his actions were to one day progress Marks and Spencer to become the nation 's leading retailer . |
| 3 | I think in order to support our our response to the Royal Commission , which is imminent , the County Council and the District Council must now have had firm ideas on what they intend to do with parishes . |
| 4 | ‘ A good husband would naturally not discuss such things with his wife , but you must have had some idea . |
| 5 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 6 | Surely you must have had some idea that something was wrong ? |
| 7 | Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’ |
| 8 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 9 | Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended . |
| 10 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 11 | Faldo could n't have had any idea of the tropical storm brewing when he and Norman exchanged birdies at the first two holes . |
| 12 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 13 | His father , however , had had other ideas . |
| 14 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 15 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 16 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 17 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 18 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 19 | But even as she said it , Ace had had another idea . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 21 | As Merrill nodded , Rob went on , ‘ Well , my mother will be home from her cruise on Saturday , and I 've had this idea … |
| 22 | Now people will listen to you and they 'll have had , had their own personal goals but they feel not worthy of expressing it anyway because they think , well I 've had this idea , I 'm probably up the creek , and they never say anything . |
| 23 | ‘ But it does n't matter because I 've had another idea . |
| 24 | Most outsiders — this newspaper included — have had different ideas at different times of what was or was not desirable or feasible . |
| 25 | I mean , we all wrote loads and loads of stuff saying what a drag housework was , how trapped women were in their kitchens , but no-one 's analysed it before , and no-one 's had any ideas about what to do about it . |