Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a pretty [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 2 | I had a pretty good idea what they wanted to discuss with me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've a pretty good idea , now that I know of his existence . |
| 4 | ‘ I have a pretty good idea of how you see me . ’ |
| 5 | I have a pretty good idea what Charlotte 's just-a-handful of also ran last-among-equals might be , although the press release does not name them for fear of diminishing the glory of Verbier 's triumph . |
| 6 | If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works , I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me . |
| 7 | If you buy a food labelled ‘ wholemeal bread ’ , ‘ beef stew and dumpling ’ or ‘ fish fingers ’ you 've a pretty good idea what 's inside . |
| 8 | Oh , she had a pretty good idea : she only needed to go back to Felix Road or even Nelson Close , where she said she lived , to find out . |
| 9 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 10 | These are fairly standard issue Japanese replacement Strat pickups mated to a five-way switch and the usual controls , so you have a pretty good idea how they sound . |