Example sentences of "idea that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 2 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 3 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 4 | Obviously this sense of guilt , this idea that I had betrayed a friendship , spurred me on when I got older , not only to study birds but also actively to promote their well-being and do what I could to prevent their numbers from dwindling . |
| 5 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 6 | Erm and another idea that I had , the conference office , there I was getting a little down about al all the students knock at the door , excuse me . |
| 7 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 8 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 9 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 10 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |
| 12 | The only small idea that I have and I do n't think it 's particularly practical is for a sort of oscilloscope triggering mechanism often , which is in fact one you get in logic analysers anyway . |
| 13 | Especially in maths I could n't stand the competitiveness of seeing the ‘ clever boy ’ ( there 's always one in every class ! ) do the exercises miles before everyone else and understanding things quicker than everybody which just reinforced the idea that I did n't have a ‘ mathematical brain' . |
| 14 | Mum had no idea that I joined in . |
| 15 | The instrument with which we shall purge our minds is the idea that I call the extended phenotype . |