Example sentences of "[pers pn] have no [adj] idea " in BNC.

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1 We 'd made three or four visits to the area to look around before we finally moved down , but I had no real idea what was happening .
2 Quixotic or not , I had no real idea of where I was going .
3 I had no definite idea that a new magazine could be something I could live off . ’
4 Of its face I had no clear idea .
5 A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players .
6 Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures .
7 I 've no more idea of who did this than the police apparently have . ’
8 ‘ If it comes to that , ’ Sir Bruce rumbled , ‘ I 've no clear idea why I 'm here myself .
9 I have no real idea what this species is , beyond guessing that it is a clamworm or nereid .
10 I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time .
11 We would have to get a special cradle to do that and I have no real idea as to how long his nerve will hold .
12 Do n't ask me what my new fox is meant to represent : I have no more idea than I imagine you have .
13 I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more .
14 I have no fucking idea .
15 When Frederica left for Nîmes she had no real idea of the South .
16 She had no real idea what to look for , and her date was a dull , insular major in the RA who had no wish to mix .
17 Maggie was undressing him impatiently too although she had no real idea of what she was doing .
18 The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château .
19 She had no clear idea of what a mortgage was .
20 She had no clear idea of how it could have rolled from the table , for it had seemed perfectly secure when she had put it there .
21 She stepped out herself then , hoping to get nearer ; she would like to see what he was doing to her , for she had no clear idea , in spite of the expert descriptions she provided for Cati in their vigils .
22 She had no clear idea where she would go , and what she was going to do in a strange city with no money .
23 It is my view , of course , that we have no such idea , and no need of it , since we do not take condition-sets for effects to be merely " enough " for them in the given sense .
24 We have no clear idea of timetabling or costs .
25 They have no more idea of the public 's response to something musical than the average man in the street .
26 ‘ Fortescue is hopping like a cat on hot bricks , demanding something should be done , but he has no more idea than I what can be done .
27 What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened .
28 But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him .
29 He had no clear idea what he was going to do but expected a good gathering at Linley 's house and thought an opportunity would occur .
30 His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was .
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