Example sentences of "i have heard the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 2 | I 'd heard the door spring open and the stairs groan as she made good her escape . |
| 3 | ‘ Overwhelmingly , doing the singles , the review was written before I 'd heard the record . |
| 4 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 5 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 6 | I 'd heard the name , who has not ? |
| 7 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 8 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 9 | What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education . |
| 10 | I had heard the word ‘ garnet ’ . |
| 11 | I had heard the story before , along with another one reputedly originating from the same school . |
| 12 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 13 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 14 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 15 | ‘ I had heard the day , but not the hour , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I had heard the National Health Service was in a bad way , but I did n't realize that do-it-yourself , take-your own-chances medicine had reached this level of intensity . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 've heard the stories ! |
| 18 | I 've heard the Reason , and I 'll tell it you . |
| 19 | ‘ Funny , ’ I said , ‘ that 's the first time I 've heard the pips this trip . ’ |
| 20 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 21 | Having said that , I 've heard the French love it , and over there the Mad Axe is selling like , er … mad . |
| 22 | There is no suggestion that any player threw punches , and Graham said : ‘ I 've heard the rumours circulating and I 've looked into it . |
| 23 | Britain 's former world sports car champion Brundle said last night : ‘ I 've heard the stories , but so far as I 'm concerned they 're just that — stories and rumour . |
| 24 | Christie , set to make his first appearance on British soil in Friday night 's Lucozade meeting in Sheffield , said : ‘ I 've heard the suggestions about facing Lewis . |
| 25 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 26 | I 've heard the account in hushed and pulsing detail and frankly it was no more and no less squalid than you might expect . |
| 27 | Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've heard the name . ’ |
| 29 | now do I do n't suppose I 'm the only person that 's been in a pub toilet , a ladies toilet and I 've heard the females in the toilet saying what , exactly what they would like to do the males ! |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I 've heard the theory that he was going to visit old Jordan . ’ |