Example sentences of "had [verb] up the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 2 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 3 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 4 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 5 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |