Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has never actually heard anybody being shrunk before . |
| 2 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 3 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 4 | She 'd almost certainly heard them all before . |
| 5 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 6 | Actually , Brix wrote that , she 'd never even heard The Stooges . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd never even heard anything by them when we started . |
| 8 | The bath and basin were pink and there were bottles and jars of bath salts and essences she 'd never even heard of . |
| 9 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 10 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 11 | They 'd never even heard of it before . |
| 12 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry — it 's awful , I know , but I 've only just heard and — Hello — is anybody there … ? ’ |
| 14 | We 've only just heard . ’ |
| 15 | Both Adie Smith and Jason Pratt phoned to say they had only just heard we have two games on Saturday . |
| 16 | As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes . |
| 17 | But advice workers in Middlesbrough said they had only just heard of the drug and had no reports of its presence in the county . |
| 18 | I had read none of them , and had only vaguely heard of one , Edna O'Brien . |
| 19 | I had only recently heard of the existence of such places , but I gradually came to the conclusion that she was running a small brothel of which she herself was the centre of interest . |
| 20 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
| 21 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've just about heard of her , but I could tell she 's famous , just by the way she sits and holds her head and moves . ’ |
| 23 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 24 | But I 've still never heard of him . ’ |
| 25 | It 's the bloody daftest thing I 've ever bloody heard . |
| 26 | The New Zealand Government 's Department of Conservation therefore proposed the introduction of restrictions on the use of set-nets around Banks Peninsula , through the use of an Act of Parliament which most New Zealanders had probably never heard of . |
| 27 | A year ago most people on Merseyside had probably never heard of the Arkansas governor . |
| 28 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 29 | They 've probably never heard of Daley Thompson . |
| 30 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |