Example sentences of "[not/n't] heard [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes is stretched out on her back , and images keep passing through her head : that strange , kindly man is visiting them again , the one who knows all about them and yet has not heard of the Eiffel Tower . |
| 2 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 3 | Despite this , a number of those interviewed had either not heard of the ATB or had not participated in training . |
| 4 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 5 | No , the man said , sighing as he downed the last spread of goat 's cheese , he had not heard of the Borrowdale cuckoo . |
| 6 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | The more natural meaning seems to me to be , ‘ at starting in the profession , ’ for it will be observed that these words are used by the testator in reciting a prior promise made when the testator had not heard of the proposed marriage with Ellen Nicholl , or , so far as appears , heard of any proposed marriage . |
| 8 | He claimed he had not heard of the Virgin Mary either . |
| 9 | He had not heard of the complaint , but promised : ‘ If we have a personal complaint , we would take it up . |
| 10 | It revealed most black and ethnic minority households interviewed in south east Hampshire had not heard of the local council 's SSD . |
| 11 | Yet this still means that over a thousand African languages are not heard on the radio . |
| 12 | He complained to Donaldson , who coolly said that he had not heard about the delegation , but if he was invited he would join it . |
| 13 | Sir Leon told the assembly that although Brussels was aware of the dissolving of the Enimont joint venture , the Commission had not heard about the court ruling . |
| 14 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 15 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 16 | Mind you , she asks a lot of questions which tend to drive you insane when you want to get on with the job , and sometimes I used words not heard in the best society . |
| 17 | The flute , therefore , is not heard by the snake . |
| 18 | Then come the secular offices : those of chamberlain or treasurer ( the treasure was kept in the king 's chamber ) , the count of the palace , who handled legal appeals not heard by the king himself , the seneschal , the butler , the constable and a string of other household officers . |
| 19 | The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road . |
| 20 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 21 | Monika , 27 , has not heard from the Bolton-born priest since the birth . |
| 22 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 23 | We still have not heard from the right hon. Gentleman — |
| 24 | Erm we 've sent all the paperworks down to er an agent there and we 've still not heard from the other solicitors as to what this erm |
| 25 | Last night England manager Geoff Cooke said he had n't heard about the incident , but confirmed : ‘ We have always said that players who play for England must be aware of the responsibilities that go with that . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 27 | Gus Dudgeon : I had n't heard of the guy before . |
| 28 | Christopher had n't heard of the ski interlude at Chamonix under the famous mountain . |
| 29 | Teething gel ( I had n't heard of the homeopathic granules then ) just before a feed established normal feeding again . |
| 30 | The Northumberlanders had n't heard of the Dorus Mhor . |