Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] heard he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 2 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 3 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 4 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 5 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 6 | But before he could get there Mister Johnny gave a high , piercing cry , quite unlike any sound Carrie had ever heard him make before , and flung himself on Frederick , arms flailing . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , maybe a bit too enthusiastic , ’ said Glastonbury : it was the harshest thing Amiss had ever heard him say . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 10 | I had never heard him talk so much . |
| 11 | Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before . |
| 12 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 13 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 14 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 15 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |