Example sentences of "'d [adv] hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about the menopause so we thought that you 'd better hear what women really think . |
| 2 | So I 'd better hear what they say . |
| 3 | He looked into Gorelli 's face , the face he 'd never seen , the face he 'd only heard , and so many years ago . |
| 4 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 5 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 6 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 7 | Oh yes , they 'd all heard that . |
| 8 | Then realizing what he 'd just heard , Dowd drew a long , slow breath . |
| 9 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 10 | Kate stared back at him , hardly daring to believe what she 'd just heard . |
| 11 | If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him . |
| 12 | I 'd already heard that you 're an expert . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd always heard that his charm was legendary as far as women were concerned and this evening was certainly proving the truth of it . |
| 14 | Oh that 's not as bad as I thought because I 'd always heard that it was like really really expensive to produce er material in braille . |
| 15 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 16 | I do n't suppose they 'd ever heard of us . |
| 17 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 18 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 19 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 20 | This was unlike anything he 'd ever heard before . |
| 21 | ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life . |
| 22 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His voice was harsher than she 'd ever heard before . |
| 25 | Her driver was a tall , friendly man called Noble Soloman , with one of the most infectious laughs she 'd ever heard . |
| 26 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 27 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 28 | ‘ She 'd probably heard rumours , and did n't like you fraternizing with the enemy camp . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe what she 'd really heard was the voice of her own conscience . |
| 30 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |