Example sentences of "hear the word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few former colleagues had much idea of what anthropology was and many seemed never to even have heard the word . |
| 2 | And our own people here have never heard the word at all … |
| 3 | I have heard the word ‘ bulimia ’ , but I 'm not sure what it is . |
| 4 | All the time I was growing up I had never heard the word ‘ homosexual ’ or even jokes about ‘ queers ’ . |
| 5 | If you see new words written and are not sure of the pronunciation because you have not heard the word or phrase used , check the pronunciation with friends — they do not have to be experts at phonetics to tell you what the word rhymes with — then bring it into your own conversation with confidence . |
| 6 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 7 | I had never heard the word . |
| 8 | I had heard the word ‘ garnet ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Chairman could I ask a question because one of the things that I 've found missing this evening is specific things that people would like to see in this playhouse or perhaps specific things that we used to do and that find are missing and the last I have n't heard the word gallery mentioned from there much at all what do we think about the gallery ? |
| 10 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 11 | He feels his purpose in life is to spread the Christian religion in unexplored places where the people have never heard the word of God . |
| 12 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 13 | I had never heard the word and unwisely said that I did n't know what it meant . |
| 14 | She had never heard the word before . |
| 15 | Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) . |
| 16 | having heard the word fork previously |
| 17 | have you ever heard the word or the phrase hooking the punters , either at or or ? |
| 18 | The trouble is I did n't know because I 've never heard the word before . |
| 19 | Well I bet you , I bet they 've never heard the word the |
| 20 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 21 | The two main means in the New Testament for a congregation to hear the word of the Lord were preaching and prophecy . |
| 22 | Many were also given lockable doors to preserve privacy , and curtains to prevent draughts ; indeed , some became so elaborate that during the 1630s the Bishop of Norwich , Richard Corbett , was led to remark wryly that they lacked ‘ nothing but beds to hear the word of God on ’ . |
| 23 | During the run-up to the general election , the Government do not want to hear the word ’ privatisation ’ , but that is what is in store for the coal industry — or is it ? |
| 24 | When you hear the word shopping in future , your pulse will race and your red corpuscles will be off and away before you can say ‘ This Week 's Special Offer ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ When most people hear the word fusion , they think of electricity . |
| 26 | I tend to ( but only tend to ) reach for mine ( I have n't got one ) every time I hear the word ‘ religion ’ . |
| 27 | There are those like Bernard Taylor , professor of business policy at Henley Management College , who raise serious doubts about it : ‘ When I hear the word empowerment , I reach for my gun , because it 's one of those cosy words . |
| 28 | When I hear the word empowerment , I reach for my gun , because it 's one of those cosy words . |
| 29 | When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control . |
| 30 | ‘ . When a man says he will follow him ‘ but let me first say farewell to those at my home ’ , Jesus reprimands him , and when a woman cries out ‘ Blessed is the womb that bore you , and the breasts that you sucked ’ , he replies ‘ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God ’ . |