Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What grotesque outlandish possibility was it that made Piphros so certain , so frightened about it ? |
| 2 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 3 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 4 | After a while strange stories were heard about him — stories of a secret , more dangerous life . |
| 5 | The dropping of these conditions may have allowed my Great-grandfather to qualify , as by all I have heard about him he had none of the virtues which were needed to gain entry . |
| 6 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 7 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 8 | Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them . |
| 9 | Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them . |
| 10 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 11 | He recognized the mythago form ( Wynne-Jones whispered to Tallis in the silence of the night ) from stories he had heard about them . |
| 12 | ‘ I had n't heard about her or her music before we met . |
| 13 | As the old lady talked to her , she realised that all the tales she had heard about her were nonsense . |
| 14 | The king of that country heard about her , and he was very pleased . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , that fits in with everything I 've heard about her , ’ she told Eddie . |
| 16 | Oh was that , that girl that was here , no , I 've heard about her , yeah . |
| 17 | And from what I 've heard about her she 's always her mouth now ! |
| 18 | The Queen and her ladies had heard about me and wanted to see me . |
| 19 | What I might actually do is say well I re if she does actually a I mean what she 'll probably do is say oh have you heard about me and Dangerous , and I 'll say yes . |
| 20 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 21 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 22 | Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’ |
| 23 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 24 | Yes , the man has heard about it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've heard about it but it is one of the sights my hosts have n't shown me . |
| 26 | I have n't heard about it for years . |
| 27 | Anyway , Davy came along and Steve Marriot also came along on that day , because quite a few people heard about it , as we put the word out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street . |
| 28 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 29 | You just have n't heard about it because you 've been too busy . ’ |
| 30 | The dynamic effect of the Union 's work mobilized the communities directly affected , while many more communities heard about it and wished to participate . |