Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had explained about Ari , vehemently disagreed with Zambia 's suggestion he should make himself known to the girl , and tortured himself out loud with conjectures about how Roirbak and Leila might , at this very moment , be destroying Ari 's abilities beneath their feet . |
| 2 | He leaned forward and spat between Ebert 's feet . |
| 3 | If we carry on to let 'em do as they like , what 'll happen is this section of the workforce will go in such a decline , they 'll be very profitable which as we 've already heard as Asda are trying it on now . |
| 4 | Most people in Britain have heard about Manchester 's crumbling sewers . |
| 5 | She wondered idly if what she had heard about Lionel 's proclivities or tastes in sexual matters were his brother 's also ? |
| 6 | I hired my boat on Faarsay — that 's a little island south of Mull — and they 'd heard about Mrs Hamilton , but they did n't know my folks , so no one told me our house was let . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Here , Sandra , ’ said one of the regulars sitting at the bar , ‘ first I 've heard about Mrs P. going off to Spain . |
| 8 | Have you heard about Dean and |
| 9 | She had heard about Edouard 's attachment to him . |
| 10 | Perhaps even more significant for the future , Anselm also told Lanfranc that he had heard about Dunstan 's rule of life for monks : would Lanfranc please send it to him ? |
| 11 | He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving , and was speaking entirely in the vocative . |
| 12 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
| 13 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 14 | So there is nothing to tell us about how and when Matthew first heard about Jesus , nor about the influence of other disciples on him . |
| 15 | The last time Iraq threatened Kuwait , in 1966 , the Brits flew 6000 troops into the principality where they sweated quietly for a few summer weeks until , the point having been taken , no more was heard about Iraq 's 19th province . |
| 16 | Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit . |
| 17 | All right then — ’ he edged closer so that he was whispering rather than shouting over the juke-box ‘ — here 's the nastiest rumour I 've ever heard about Steenie — really nasty rumour . |
| 18 | Erm I know , like you do these and er I mean I , I 've heard about Alan and Sue for a long time , I know they 're having a lot of bother , you know with the decorating and all that . |
| 19 | Given what we have heard about Eli and his sons , and in the light , also , of those dark prophecies of doom , what message do those words convey as Israel goes into battle with Philistia ? |
| 20 | She had heard about Donna Frizzell 's frightful taste in literature , and , though she was herself a member of the Society for the Preservation of Morals and knew why the books had been purchased , she saw no reason to save her neighbour any humiliation , and had expressed suitably shocked surprise . |
| 21 | Wigan coach John Monie admitted : ‘ Everything I had heard about Workington proved to be true . |
| 22 | Caddie Ian Wright landed his job with Seve Ballesteros mainly because the Spanish maestro had heard about Wright 's yardage books — at the time Wright was compiling a yardage book for almost every championship course in Europe — and his unerring accuracy and detail in planning out the route from tee to green . |
| 23 | Harbury had heard about Tavett 's typewriter from one of his police contacts and did not share Rain 's inhibitions about discussing it . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't heard about Doug but in a case of murder , nobody close to the victim gets overlooked . ’ |
| 25 | I mentioned the stories I 'd heard about Johnny Boy to Michael Willis . |
| 26 | no matter what you 've heard about John , I know he 's a man of his word he 's an honest man and he wo n't say that he did n't say that to me will you John . |
| 27 | Could Louise have heard about Nicky and his deceit ? |
| 28 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 29 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Obviously you 've heard about Francis Garland — how did you hear , by the way ? ’ |
| 30 | He had heard about Louise 's move and the thought of losing Constance had affected him more than he had imagined possible . |