Example sentences of "we heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | We heard the fair and followed the jangling music |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine our anger , and the anger of all lesbians and gays when we heard that the NEC , led by Roy Hattersley , had voted to exclude the commitment for an equal age of consent of 16 for gay men , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Just before leaving the path we heard a frantic rustle and spied a baby adder slithering away . |
| 4 | Later in the year , when we visit the area again , we heard that the Swedish Lapps had fenced off an area of the Dividal National Park , with over five kilometres of wire . |
| 5 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 6 | Then we heard the sound of a vehicle . |
| 7 | We heard the news over the radio at lunch break and I tell you , Clem , my lads are really up in arms . |
| 8 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 9 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 10 | Yes , we heard of it even on the same day . |
| 11 | We heard this music — Mahler , Webern , Schoenberg — a great deal ; it was our daily bread . |
| 12 | We heard a male duet of drunk voices , and a body lurched against the door in passing . |
| 13 | We heard her say , ‘ Yes ? ’ in English , then , in her own language : ‘ Shimon ? |
| 14 | We heard the wail of a siren approaching the hotel , below us . |
| 15 | Imagine how we felt when we heard talk , on the BBC , of the possible intention to bomb Puerto Madryn ( Welsh : Porth Madryn ) , named after Love Jones Parry of Madryn — which is a small village , some three miles from where I live and am now writing . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We heard a blast which shook the pub . |
| 17 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 18 | At the end of a scientific lecture , C. P. Snow once received a backhanded compliment from his chairman who said , ‘ We all knew Raman spectroscopy was complicated , but did not realise how complicated until we heard Snow 's talk ’ . |
| 19 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 20 | As soon as we entered the house we heard a low moaning and , on opening the living-room door , saw our landlady rocking herself backwards and forwards in her chair . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , we heard about the tea-parties and the Christmas get-togethers . |
| 22 | ‘ We heard the radio and saw photographs of the damage in the papers , ’ Damiani said . |
| 23 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 24 | It may seem odd that what we heard was such a revelation . |
| 25 | In the perfect silence we heard a toucan 's grating call . |
| 26 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 27 | I was with him when we heard that the invasion might start . |
| 28 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 29 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 30 | A few days later we heard a reading room receptionist telephoning the ground floor police desk to ask if she needed her umbrella to go to lunch . |