Example sentences of "[vb past] heard from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Jack Ashdown , and he 'd heard from Lucy again . |
| 2 | It was ten days ago that she 'd heard from Le Touquet , and that series of games must be over by now , she knew . |
| 3 | I suggested that , in any case , it might be wise to postpone going away until we had heard from M. Chaillot regarding the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 4 | Then she had telephoned her parents , and learned that they too had heard from Sebastian . |
| 5 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 6 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
| 7 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |
| 8 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
| 9 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 10 | She had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had spoken of marrying a country girl to help him farm , milk cows and reap corn . |
| 11 | Eva had heard from Dad what a poet among builders Ted was . |
| 12 | ‘ He was upset , ’ Rose said pleadingly , for she had heard from Aycliffe just what Benedict had said in his black fury . |
| 13 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 14 | ‘ She had heard from Cuan and decided to take up his offer to see South Africa . ’ |
| 15 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 16 | His name is Mr William Charles Francis ; age 26 ; occupation journalist ; religion Church of England ; next-of-kin father ; addresses of both in the Admission Book ; admitted to Casualty at 10.20 A.M. — ’ and she went on to tell us all I had heard from Humber . |
| 17 | ‘ It is only I had heard from Miss Blagden that … ’ |
| 18 | Shildon telephoned next , from a callbox , to say he had heard from Eliot that Rain was willing to work with him . |
| 19 | His mother had never mentioned it until now but he had heard from Mr Natchet , the postman , it was a place where they taught you things you did n't want to know . |