English in a Minute: Verbs that can be used with 'idea'
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. You're listening to bbclearningenglish.com Do you have any idea how many verbs you can use with idea? There are a lot. You can have an idea, which we often say when you're suddenly inspired. Or you can have no idea, which means you don't know. What time does the show start? I have no idea. I have an idea. Let's call and ask.

If an idea pops into your head, you suddenly have an idea. Ooh, an idea just popped into my head. We could go to that Chinese restaurant before the show. If you dream up an idea, you have a silly or unusual idea. Trust you to dream up an idea like that. We're vegetarian, we don't eat chicken. You can put forward an idea, which means suggest an idea. This is often used in a more formal context, like work.

I'd like to put forward an idea, if I may. We could hire a freelancer for the graphics. Can you dream up or put forward an idea of what word we can look at next time?

And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation. It felt a really safe and welcoming space. After the yoga classes, I felt amazing. But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders.

I don't have my passport, I don't have my phone, I don't have my bank cards, I have nothing. The passport being taken, the being in a house and not feeling like they can leave...

You just get sucked in so gradually.

And it's done so skillfully that you don't realize. And it's like this, the secret that's there. I wanted to believe that, you know, that...

Whatever they were doing, even if it seemed gross to me, was for some spiritual reason that I couldn't yet understand. Revealing the hidden secrets of a global yoga network. I feel that I have no other choice. The only thing I can do is to speak about this and to put my reputation and everything else on the line. I want truth and justice.

And for other people to not be hurt, for things to be different in the future. To bring it into the light and almost alchemise some of that evil stuff that went on and take back the power. World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.