Example sentences of "they [vb past] heard [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
| 2 | They had arrived home near the turnpike crossroads at 10.15pm , they had heard a shot at 10.25 , and they had seen William Tidbury and William Day leaving a Path near the woods at 10.50 , which was some five minutes after PC Golby had discovered the first body . |
| 3 | They had heard a train without doubt . |
| 4 | From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot . |
| 5 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 6 | They had heard the gist of Cramer 's call and sensed that it was all going to fail , somehow , somewhere . |
| 7 | However , presently a rider appeared , from Jardine , saying that they had heard the horn . |
| 8 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 9 | They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm . |
| 10 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 11 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 12 | They had heard the news of the new fleet already . |
| 13 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 14 | Neither of them had heard the door open , but suddenly Tom was there , and it was clear that he had heard Faye 's last words . |