Example sentences of "[pers pn] hear of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 2 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 3 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 4 | Nowadays , it 's not often you hear of a baby called Gladys or Reginald . |
| 5 | Keep an eye on the local press and as soon as you hear of a church closing , make an approach to the vicar as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Asked one angry betting shop punter : ‘ Why is it only afterwards that we hear of a betting coup ? |
| 7 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 8 | We hear of a visit to late fifth-century Thessaly by Gorgias of Leontini , the celebrated orator and sophist , and of actual interference by Kritias ( p. 83 ) . |
| 9 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 10 | At the time of the second General Election of 1701 we hear of a club of Tory MPs who subscribed a guinea a head for batches of Davenant 's papers to be given away among acquaintances " as antidotes against the poison that is spread by the other side , who spare no cost to scatter their libels … round the kingdom " . |
| 11 | DOWN under being the truly operative phrase , we hear of a stunning revelation about how our Antipodean cousins ‘ sex ’ a grape . |
| 12 | They make a fucking day out of it if they hear of a prang as nasty as this . ’ |