Sentence examples for I conceived a from inspiring English sources

"Have you thought about lightning?" At fifty-two, I conceived a grand unified theory of squash.

The first thing that happened was I conceived a huge crush on my cousin Martha.

"During that time I conceived a deep affection and a high regard for that country, so it is saddening for me that in this case I'm obliged to confront Australia in respect of conduct which inexplicably falls so far short of the high standards that prevailed in my time," he said.

The truth is that I remember nothing about those oysters or, in fact, about the rest of the meal, perhaps because later that night I conceived a beautiful daughter, somewhat hurriedly, in the middle of a hotel fire that we then managed to flee with two book manuscripts intact.

In my younger and more vulnerable years (last spring), my friend and I conceived a T-shirt idea that we thought was sure to make us millions of dollars, or, worst-case scenario, allow us to break even.

I conceived an idea based on my experience of gaps in services/supports, and research evidence on the benefits of exercise and social support for mental health: walking peer support groups that would offer a combination of a commitment to groups, the benefits of emotional support, and the ease of walking, to reduce barriers to exercise.

"I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built," Washington wrote in 1771; every one of his activities seems to have had a bookish accompaniment.

This leads him to argue that we can conceive of non-existent, fictional objects: "I conceive a centaur.

He tells another close friend, Humbert Ferrand, what the symphony is about: "I conceive an artist, gifted with a lively imagination, who … sees for the first time a woman who realises the ideal of beauty and fascination that his heart has so long invoked, and falls madly in love with her.

Because even without books or rather with only prayer books and bloodstock manuals in our house, I had conceived a love of words and assembled my own little crop of them.

One of my favorite recent McSweeney's projects is McSweeney's #36, which I conceived as a box that looks like a human head.