Example sentences of "i 've a [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , wait a minute , I 've a better idea ; she might be able to get Paul to bring them if she can catch him before he leaves for the airport . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about . |
| 3 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've a marvellous idea for a game . ’ |
| 5 | I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’ |