Example sentences of "[modal v] hear [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | Let's hear it for the fans |
2 | So let's hear it for the Department of Education and Science . |
3 | Let's hear it for the farmer . |
4 | Events are rarely normal ; usually strange ( ‘ Let's hear it for ‘ strange ’ ! ’ exclaims Lady Miss Kier over dinner ) . |
5 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
6 | So ladies and gents , let's have a big hand for the switchless network adaptor ; and let's hear it for Intel 's EtherExpress 16 , one of the pioneers of this approach . |
7 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
8 | Let's hear it for the Committee |
9 | You can hear it for yourself if you doubt what I 've written , ’ Doreen said , smiling broadly . |
10 | We 're amazed that we can hear the people downstairs , cos we can hear them like , you know , if you hear somebody above you , walking here dong dong dong dong , above , you can hear it for some reason , below on the ground floor . |