Example sentences of "had the [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 2 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 3 | Others had had the same idea . |
| 4 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 5 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea . |
| 7 | As she did so , Caspar turned with her , and Fenella knew he had had the same idea . |
| 8 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 9 | Other girls have had the same idea , but so far he 's still Mystery Miguel . ’ |
| 10 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 11 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 12 | As calculations go , this one turns out to be surprisingly simple , once somebody has had the original idea . |
| 13 | Although few in the audience could have had the slightest idea of what the songs were about , their power to move was undiminished by the language barrier ; such was their skill in vocal expression that the audience could tell which of the songs were mildly comic . |
| 14 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 15 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 16 | Teldec have had the happy idea of adding the early and littleknown A minor Concerto to this reissue . |