Example sentences of "he had heard a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 2 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 3 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 4 | He said he had heard a rumour that Margaret Thatcher was going to be made Governor of Gibraltar , ‘ but I 'll believe that when it happens . ’ |
| 5 | He said he had heard a commotion , but not seen the incident . |
| 6 | Among the fifty-eight French officers captured were the Brigadier and two Regimental Commanders , the former taken in his dugout before he had heard a shot fired . |
| 7 | He had heard a lot about Sara from Miss Lockwood — how sweet , wise and witty she was — how clever , how energetic — how talented , getting a job in America as a high-powered secretary . |