Example sentences of "i [adv] heard [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony said : ‘ I suddenly heard Questa yelping . |
| 2 | I just heard Fagg shouting , ‘ How dare you , sir ? ’ and the Commander wailing something about old times . |
| 3 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |
| 4 | I once heard daddy say to her |
| 5 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 6 | ‘ I always heard graduates were n't welcome there ? ’ |
| 7 | I distinctly heard Ronnie 's disbelieving ‘ What ? ’ |
| 8 | And why he wanted me to say I also heard voices was so he would n't feel so alone . ’ |
| 9 | ON THE North Shore I often heard people say ‘ there are no two waves alike ’ . |
| 10 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 11 | While on the top floor I often heard Grace Poole 's strange laugh , and sometimes I saw her too . |
| 12 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 13 | I then heard gunfire , a couple of shots . |
| 14 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 15 | But I never heard Trevor embarrass anyone , even if he 'd had one or two . |
| 16 | Well , I never heard voices . |
| 17 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 18 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |