Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good husband would naturally not discuss such things with his wife , but you must have had some idea . |
| 2 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 3 | Surely you must have had some idea that something was wrong ? |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |