Example sentences of "i heard the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I heard the real reason the game on Monday was postponed was because Hunslet ploughed it on Sunday .
2 There was no answer though I heard the faint mewing of the cat .
3 Here , one Friday evening I heard the best news so far .
4 Fifty metres down the road , I heard the insecure flap of rubber sandals .
5 The next moment I heard the confident heel taps behind me .
6 Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket .
7 Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ?
8 Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’
9 I heard the other day .
10 I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind .
11 I heard the other day that you were thinking of selling your practice and moving away . ’
12 Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ?
13 Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand .
14 And you seeing what you 're playing tonight , I thought I ca n't , but I heard the first thing der der der , but then it goes der der der
15 After two months in prison , I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner .
16 I stood engrossed by this until I heard the rocking chair creak behind me , and at that I scampered up after them .
17 Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great .
18 There was a loud burst of laughter behind me and I heard the Belgian clergyman exclaim : ‘ That is really heretical ! positively heretical ! ’ then laugh loudly himself .
19 When I heard the rowdy noise earlier , I was sure that there was a John Doe — dead on arrival — back from Maastricht .
20 There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall .
21 I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door .
22 Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road .
23 I heard the outer door shut .
24 I heard the outer door slam , then silence .
25 I heard the short noise of a zip being opened , before a deathly silence set in .
26 It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone .
27 I always thought Australia 's finest export came in a cold can — until I heard the incredible slide playing of ex-patriate Dave Hole .
28 I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in .
29 I heard the same sigh , and no doubt the same gravelled reluctance of speech , though I ca n't remember anything he said .
30 Again and again I heard the same story of deepening poverty driving students to take the decision to drop out of education .
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