Example sentences of "heard [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 2 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 3 | Oh God you have n't , have you heard about the fifth year toilet yet ? |
| 4 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 5 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 6 | HAVE you heard about the dyslexic devil worshipper ? |
| 7 | Erm we 've heard about the measured approach , the step by step approach er and Mr , has said , please make your mind up one way or another so we can proceed with our local plan preparation . |
| 8 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 9 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 10 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 11 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 12 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 13 | In the last couple of weeks we have heard about the tragic death of Sergeant Alan King and Detective Constable Jim Morrison and we have seen the terrible injuries inflicted on their colleagues . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you heard about the intended evacuation ? ’ |
| 15 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 16 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 17 | The jury had heard during the four-day trial that Daly and Welshman Artro Davies , of Maes Dulyn , Penygroes , had earlier been involved in two scuffles in a local pub . |
| 18 | Heard during the Royal Progress through London , on June 23rd 1911 ’ . |
| 19 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |
| 20 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 21 | Local members as , er appreciate with this paper will be kept informed and will also I should of said the Chairman of the Transport and Road Safety Sub Committee , because the process of consultation wo n't work effectively unless local views are heard and they of course can be heard through the local member . |
| 22 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Toni 's voice strongly improved and the guitarist could be heard For the final encore , singing The Dreamer , Toni crouched down at the front of the stage with a candle ; personally I found this a bit dated . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The orchestral playing is quite ravishing at times , and Giulinii displays the utmost care over detail so that lots of subtleties can be heard despite the full textures . |
| 28 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 29 | The telephone call was made , and Margaret , heard amid the distant screams of children quarrelling , gushed that it was a darling-idea and she would telephone the Advent herself , since she knew the women 's editor well . |
| 30 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |