Example sentences of "hear of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard of pots calling kettles black . |
| 2 | I sobered , thinking of sagas I had heard of wolves , but my father hushed me . |
| 3 | Had she heard of orgasms ? |
| 4 | Yes , sorry , of course I 've heard of ploughs . |
| 5 | I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT . |
| 6 | Supremely logical , I supposed , if one had never heard of gauges . |
| 7 | I have heard of chaps being accused of asserting their conjugal rights , but asserting moral rights is obviously something else . |
| 8 | Oh I 've heard of mangoes |
| 9 | He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute , but he had not met one before . |
| 10 | Have you heard of products and quotients ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've heard of birthstones , but I did n't realise there was a horticultural equivalent . |
| 12 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 13 | I 've heard of parents shopping their sisters . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose neither of you have heard of Badgers ’ Wood ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Have you ever heard of Badgers ’ Wood ? ’ |
| 16 | I 've heard of owls drowning in cattle troughs because they dive in to bathe , not realising how deep the water is , and become too wet and heavy to get out . |
| 17 | Violet had heard of women like that . |
| 18 | I 've heard of women so depressed that they spend their 40th birthday incommunicado , having a mini nervous breakdown in bed . |
| 19 | The Edinburgh branch of the union faced particular problems from the start , then , with a sub-category of skilled , fully apprenticed but low-paid compositors in the trade well before any mention is heard of women , and with a division of labour between groups of compositors already well established . |
| 20 | I , I 've never really heard of women attacking lesbian women or women attacking gay men , its usually if there 's a if there 's a row something or other because the male of the species seems the one who 's been , feels very , very threatened at the |
| 21 | We 've all heard of women giving up work for their children , but men ? |
| 22 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 23 | ‘ Parents have to rely on references to gauge their backgrounds , and we 've all heard of cases when references are forged . |
| 24 | I have heard of cases where sudden terror and stress has caused involuntary evacuation of the bowels and I know without question that this was the occasion when I came nearest to suffering that unhappy fate . |
| 25 | He tried to think of what little he had heard of snares . |
| 26 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sure that I 've heard of instances where , er , the results have been falsified , |
| 28 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of wages , ’ Mungo said , heaving another huge log . |
| 30 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |