Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | In possessing her , he is both taken out of , and placed in possession of , himself : ‘ She gave me the idea of my manliness I had grown to need . ’ |
| 2 | The advent of the Arbortech Carving Competition at the 1990 Woodworker Show gave me the idea of putting the tool to some good use . |
| 3 | This description gave me the idea of a soldier slipping silently through the jungle . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 5 | Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper . |
| 6 | " During one of these fits , " he later recalled , " while again considering the problem of the origin of species there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest . " |
| 7 | She gave me the idea for this footage . |
| 8 | This at once gave me the idea for the experimental design I wanted . |
| 9 | it gives me the idea that it 's not . . |
| 10 | Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler . |
| 11 | The way Hilda talked gave me the idea they were all four fairly pally early on . ’ |
| 12 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 13 | That 's what gave me the idea . ’ |
| 14 | For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence . |
| 15 | Children need to feel safe and secure about the world they grow up in , and it is unwise to give them the idea that everything they eat or come into contact with is a potential threat . |
| 16 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 17 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 18 | We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together . |
| 19 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 20 | Every step is a chance to meet people , to give them the idea , the experience that can change their living and thinking ; to be caught up in an effort to bring a fundamental change to Rhodesia — and that means , of course , matching one 's own life to it . |
| 21 | His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men , tossing between them the idea of war . |
| 22 | in order to get them , in order to get them to come , surely you 've got to sell them the idea that they 're going to get something useful out of it |
| 23 | No I No idea ! |
| 24 | ‘ What gave you the idea we were going to ask you about his personal life ? |
| 25 | They tell you nothing , give you the idea that there are no alternatives … they do n't like to admit that they ca n't cater for every child 's needs … they do n't give anything freely … not even information . |
| 26 | They use the idea for designing the interiors of buildings and so on ; essentially it 's a toy in its current form , but it gives you the idea . |
| 27 | That 's a bit extreme but it gives you the idea . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'd like you to think if I say building that will give you the idea . |
| 30 | Have you no idea ? |