Example sentences of "she had [adv] heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 3 | She looked at him as if she had barely heard him . |
| 4 | She had already heard the news . |
| 5 | She had already heard the answer from Aunt Bertha , but here was the out-of-the-blue opportunity to hear it from Silas . |
| 6 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 7 | She had just heard in Helsinki her brother-in-law has been hauled out of the frozen harbour . |
| 8 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 9 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 10 | With an effort , Melissa sifted mentally through all she had just heard . |
| 11 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 12 | She had also heard a car come up the drive , and was heading through the hall to the porch . |
| 13 | Jessamy also remembered his clipped , completely unemotional voice , mainly because she had occasionally heard an unnerving echo of it in Julius 's own voice , when he was deliberately being distant . |
| 14 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 15 | She understood the true meaning of a phrase she had often heard but never defined : in her element . |
| 16 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 17 | It made the meeting with the woman , whom she had often heard referred to but whom she remembered meeting only once briefly in New York less daunting . |
| 18 | She had once heard Betty calling Jane Austen ‘ dear Jane ’ . |
| 19 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 20 | She had once heard one of her brothers say , ‘ I 've never seen my poor old bird look so tatty . ’ |
| 21 | The degree of his paranoia rose and fell , easily and rhythmically , like some distant lake she had once heard of , which locals claimed breathed in , then out , as if a living thing , among pleasant groves : if she dropped in notions , like stones , when the lake was at its fullest with what power did the ripples surge and spread . |
| 22 | Ruth 's sense of uneasiness was stronger than ever ; it was the first time she had ever heard Connor say he felt tired . |
| 23 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 24 | He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case . |
| 25 | This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say , because it had undertones of cynicism , of self-mockery . |
| 26 | She had tried all the sane home remedies she had ever heard of to dislodge it . |
| 27 | Cobalt called in the most enthusiastic tone she had ever heard from him . |
| 28 | That was possibly the most humorous thing she had ever heard . |
| 29 | Nelson had fallen head over heels in love with Billie , and had unofficially appointed Charity chief consultant of matters of the heart , which was about the biggest joke she had ever heard . |
| 30 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |