Example sentences of "[verb] a rough idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if it , if it 's an illness , not a simple accident , an accident is probably , or you 've got a rough idea as to how long you gon na be off for . |
| 2 | I mean I 've got a rough idea of what the things are |
| 3 | But I 've got a rough idea where it 'll go anyway . |
| 4 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 5 | Well er I think that getting away the oh you live in Nottingham , oh fancy that you know , you , you know where you 're starting , you know , everyone either works for Boots or used to work for Boots and , you know , you 've got a rough idea , you , you , you do n't need to go into the oh fancy that you know , all that 's arranged so erm I think i i it 's , i i i it 's the middle of September when we either go to Los Angeles , I think we go to Los Angeles , and fool around Hollywood and San Diego and places and down to see a and then away off to erm Las Vegas and Flagstaff you know about this meteor crater in Flagstaff , that apparently is why you go to Flagstaff tt a meteor came , the meteor crater is there tt and then the Grand Canyon and go through national park which San Francisco and erm spend erm two or three days there and then come back again . |
| 6 | I got a rough idea of who erm we 're kind of er playing contact . |
| 7 | To give a rough idea of the price , a Style I dreadnought retails at £1,150 , and a Style II dreadnought at £1,695 . |
| 8 | And to give a rough idea of where the group makes its money , she cited breakdown of turnover by geographic area . |
| 9 | you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them |
| 10 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 11 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 12 | Once Columbus had found his new continent , and the discovery was common knowledge , anyone else mounting an expedition westward would have a rough idea what he would find . |
| 13 | This gives a rough idea of the number of choices that have to be carried forward in order to produce word graphs of this size . |
| 14 | By looking into the pile of a rug and comparing the intensity of colours with those on the surface , you can obtain a rough idea of how far the mellowing process has progressed . |
| 15 | To get a rough idea of the half-life of the initiated complexes the heparin challenge was allowed to proceed for either 15 seconds or for 10 minutes before the addition of KMnO 4 ( simultaneous addition of KMnO 4 and heparin was not possible since the chemical reagent oxidizes the heparin ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had a rough idea in my mind , before going to Portugal , of the approximate shape and design of the picture I wanted to create . |
| 19 | I had a rough idea from the photograph where the site was , but on the ground everything looked different . |
| 20 | They had a rough idea of when the murder took place from the state of the body — not exact , but within a day or two . |
| 21 | I 've got , I , I had a rough idea of what he 'd got and what he had n't now . |
| 22 | Secondly make sure that you are not interrupted during the meeting and have a rough idea about the format which the interview should follow . |
| 23 | 70 have a rough idea — and 10 would settle for something totally wrong . |
| 24 | Now you have a rough idea of your foot type , what do you look for ? |
| 25 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 26 | I have a rough idea . |
| 27 | The techniques of scanning and skimming can both be used to gain a rough idea of what an article or book contains , so that you can read parts in more detail if you want to . |