Sentence examples for have a certain idea from inspiring English sources

We have a certain idea about Paris.

Parisians have a certain idea about Americans.

"You come from county cricket and you have a certain idea about your game and how you want to play cricket.

"To know whether you've had any influence, first you'd have to have a certain idea of what your style is, and I don't.

"After you have a certain idea, you can't go back," he said, "because everything else seems very weak compared to it".

The grape sellers have a certain idea of what a champagne house should look like, and are prepared to punish those that don't match up to expectations with higher prices for their raw materials.

I had a certain idea of myself as I approached: portrait of the writer going home.

Throughout, Stein has a certain idea of France as clear as General de Gaulle's, if more detached.

"He had a certain idea and when he hadn't visualised further we did notice," confirms Martin.

Mr Judt has a "certain idea of Europe", a community of values whose system of inter-state relations is a model to be copied, rather than, as in the past, a warning to be avoided.

Zac Posen has a certain idea of Paris in its ooh la la! glory days, bathed in the glow of red plush seats, peopled with coquettes in body-molded outfits fancied up with feathers.