Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] hear [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him . |
| 2 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 3 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 4 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 5 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 6 | Well , I 'd never heard of Lloyd 's . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd never heard of Guillain-Barré Syndrome before . |
| 8 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 9 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 10 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 11 | Wish we 'd never heard of car dealers . |
| 12 | I 'd never heard of Knudsen until earlier this morning when I was somewhere over the North Sea on my way from England and I happened to open a magazine aimed at Nordic Airport passengers . |
| 13 | He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name . |
| 14 | Report by Ms de Meaner Aside from Katie Mallett who , early on , informed me she would n't be entering this comp ( she 'd never heard of Summerhill ) , most of the regulars entered . |
| 15 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 16 | It also ignored the fact that most Lionisers had already heard of Rochester and were aware of the importance of Rochester in the canon of the Great Lion . |
| 17 | Also , by the time of publication , the world had already heard of Hawking 's genius ; FRS at 32 and Lucasian Professor ( Newton 's former chair ) at 37 ; a brilliant mind trapped by motor neurone disease in an ever-wasting body . |
| 18 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 19 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 20 | He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving , and was speaking entirely in the vocative . |
| 21 | She had just heard in Helsinki her brother-in-law has been hauled out of the frozen harbour . |
| 22 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 23 | We are not aware that Macmillan had ever heard of Bethune-Baker . |
| 24 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 25 | Following a recent strategic analysis , it found its members valued the Society , but not enough potential members had even heard of BNES . |
| 26 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 27 | From Finland to Hong Kong — where also no-one had even heard of Charlene Mitchell — Kylie became a sensation . |
| 28 | No one had even heard of Pat Weaver , let alone seen him . |
| 29 | A way of life had been born and no one had even heard of hip hop , house or rap , let alone Run DMC . |
| 30 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |