Example sentences of "hear [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh God you have n't , have you heard about the fifth year toilet yet ? |
| 2 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 3 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 4 | St Etienne 's ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ is the strangest mutation , featuring Pete Wiggs ' voice , heard for the first time , improvising lyrics like ‘ I 'm too shaky for my Stevens ’ . |
| 5 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 6 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 7 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 8 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 9 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 10 | She heard about the second attack only on her return . |
| 11 | Across the green , Doctor Lovell heard for the first time about the accident at the old people 's homes , and was magnanimous enough not to make any comment about Edward Young 's steps in front of his partners . |
| 12 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 13 | He is a warm , caring person underneath as we hear in the last sentence , spoken by the uncaring Carlson , |
| 14 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |
| 15 | For example , although it is easy enough to decide which vowel one hears in ‘ beat ’ or ‘ bit ’ , it is much less easy to decide which vowel one hears in the second syllable of words such as , for example , ‘ easy ’ or ‘ busy ’ . |
| 16 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 17 | His proof of evidence , which is due to be heard within the next fortnight is , it transpires , being translated . |
| 18 | The researcher could be heard in the next room , stalling on the telephone while he looked through the file for the references . |
| 19 | I presume he believed they would never hear of the second marriage . |
| 20 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 21 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 22 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a messenger for you , Major Karr , ’ she said , the use of Karr 's rank indicating to them all that the man was within hearing in the next room . |