Example sentences of "i [verb] heard [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd heard of Doctor Delvin but had no idea how important he was . |
| 2 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 3 | She added : ‘ I 'd heard of babies born addicted to drugs . |
| 4 | She had an ear infection and she told the doctor , but it was the first I 'd heard of it . |
| 5 | The second man fitted the description I 'd heard of her husband . |
| 6 | Well I 'd heard of him yes . |
| 7 | From what I 'd heard of La Flaxperson , a crowbar might help . |
| 8 | Oh yes well you see , very occasionally , I 'd heard of somebody having an oak cokin coffin . |
| 9 | Then they said well and then I realised that it was Fennite and I 'd heard of that |
| 10 | I mentioned the stories I 'd heard about Johnny Boy to Michael Willis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I said , I 'd heard about it . |
| 13 | That was the one that I 'd heard about . |
| 14 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 15 | I 'd heard on the grapevine it was nearly settled . ’ |
| 16 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 17 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 18 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 19 | ‘ Would I have heard of her ? ’ |
| 20 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 21 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 22 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 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 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 25 | Wigan coach John Monie admitted : ‘ Everything I had heard about Workington proved to be true . |
| 26 | This was the Old Red I had heard about , and not the man I had met in the subway . |
| 27 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 28 | I could see that my character had not improved since I had heard about my expectations . |
| 29 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 30 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |