Example sentences of "had heard [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed that Aunt Louise could thread her needle without too much trouble and even write a few letters , but I had heard that sight is often impaired by poor health , and prided myself that this improvement might be due to good food and peace of mind . |
| 2 | He had heard that expression before . |
| 3 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 4 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 5 | I had heard that name before , and searched my memory to discover its associations . |
| 6 | I had remembered where I had heard that name before . |
| 7 | I had heard that voice before in an alleyway in London . |
| 8 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 9 | The court had heard that Guppy would not give details of one account in Austria because publicity might ‘ compromise ’ someone else . |
| 10 | She had heard that term before . |
| 11 | I had heard that light from distant galaxies was shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and this was supposed to indicate that the universe was expanding . |
| 12 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 13 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 14 | Cassie had heard many shades of emotion expressed by Johnny 's voice , indeed it was a powerful weapon and one he knew only too well how to use to good effect , but never had she heard him use the particular tone with which he now addressed his wife . |
| 15 | She had heard such tales of those irregular armies that the thought of them brought sweat breaking out all over her . |
| 16 | He had heard this request a thousand times . |
| 17 | The children had heard this song many times but they were always sad that it sounded such a lonely song . |
| 18 | Such things she had heard this day ! |
| 19 | However , when subjects had heard several sentences after the target sentence , they were only able to distinction reliably between the target and a similar sentence involving a semantic change ; sentences with syntactic changes were confused with the target . |
| 20 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 21 | I was surprised to hear Tim say that he had heard some owners state that horses ' mouth for sharpness . |
| 22 | He had heard some talk about an accident . |
| 23 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 24 | He had heard enough stories of artists who had started painting too soon , and failed , floundering in a morass without sound drawing and perspective techniques . |
| 25 | Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . |
| 26 | I had heard those grunts before with every expiratory breath . |
| 27 | The workers had heard those words many times before at the Russian Easter night service . |
| 28 | She had heard those words too many times before to be impressed by them . |
| 29 | The car had pulled over , then he had heard another car . |
| 30 | He was almost sure he had heard another whistle , in a low key , somewhere ahead of him . |