1.   McAvennie threatened to sue Kamara but dropped the idea when it was established that the injury would not end his career.

2.   The high-handed way in which Washington dropped the idea on its Western partners accounts for some the hostile reaction it has received.

3.   The project was going to be too expensive so the idea was dropped.

4.   I discovered that more than desire and feeling were necessary to write and I dropped the idea.

5.   The revised accord dropped the idea of a new legal body.

6.   This latter piece of logic was the clincher and he dropped the idea as soon as he sobered up, the following week.

7.   But, of course, Ben had to drop that idea in order to write Gloriana.

8.   But they dropped the idea after the plans were strongly criticised on environmental grounds.

9.   Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party, Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis.