Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Hazel , " said Fiver suddenly , " I want to get a clear idea of this Silverweed , but I dare n't go closer by myself . |
| 2 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 3 | Various methods of locating sites have therefore been developed which attempt to give a better idea of a site 's layout . |
| 4 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 5 | " Well , I 'd say they 've copied a good idea from the squirrels and that makes them better rabbits . " |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got a good idea what 's been going on . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got a good idea and this time it 'll work . ’ |
| 8 | But I 've got a good idea about one thing : that little miss upstairs knows more than she lets on . |
| 9 | So I 've got a good idea what 's going on on that spreadsheet , what 's on it , where it is , and what 's happen what happens in the processes . |
| 10 | Oh yes , I mean if there 's that you 're good at or if you 've got a good idea that 's simply fun I 'm sure all young people would be really willing to help . |
| 11 | Well , we 've got a good idea , but the blood tests will tell us more . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got a good idea . |
| 13 | I 've got a good idea , I 'm gon na mummy . |
| 14 | I 've got a good idea of where everywhere is . |
| 15 | I 've got a good idea I might have read it . |
| 16 | I 've got a good idea mummy ! |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got a new idea for the fall , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I 've got a cracking idea for training — you 'll love this one . |
| 19 | Yeah , if it , if it 's an illness , not a simple accident , an accident is probably , or you 've got a rough idea as to how long you gon na be off for . |
| 20 | I mean I 've got a rough idea of what the things are |
| 21 | But I 've got a rough idea where it 'll go anyway . |
| 22 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 23 | Well er I think that getting away the oh you live in Nottingham , oh fancy that you know , you , you know where you 're starting , you know , everyone either works for Boots or used to work for Boots and , you know , you 've got a rough idea , you , you , you do n't need to go into the oh fancy that you know , all that 's arranged so erm I think i i it 's , i i i it 's the middle of September when we either go to Los Angeles , I think we go to Los Angeles , and fool around Hollywood and San Diego and places and down to see a and then away off to erm Las Vegas and Flagstaff you know about this meteor crater in Flagstaff , that apparently is why you go to Flagstaff tt a meteor came , the meteor crater is there tt and then the Grand Canyon and go through national park which San Francisco and erm spend erm two or three days there and then come back again . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got a great idea . |
| 25 | So that you 've got a vague idea of er what 's going to befall you for the rest of today ? |
| 26 | I 've got a better idea . " |
| 27 | ‘ If you 've got a better idea , why do n't you say so ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We could manage without it , but — No , I 've got a better idea . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got a better idea , ’ Sam said , leaning forward . |
| 30 | Well , I 've got a better idea . |