Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] heard from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 3 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 4 | When she had n't heard from him she 'd presumed he was n't keen . |
| 5 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 6 | She had not heard from her husband , a policeman in Bosnia , for two days . |
| 7 | Cobalt called in the most enthusiastic tone she had ever heard from him . |
| 8 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 9 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 10 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 11 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 12 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 13 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 14 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 15 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 16 | It was a raw , strangely sexual laugh ; one he had not heard from her before . |
| 17 | Astonished he had not heard from Donleavy himself about Miller taking over , Coleman sometimes wondered afterwards , in exile , if Donleavy had been a code name for Matthew Kevin Gannon , one of the intelligence agents who had died with Major Charles McKee on Flight 103 . |
| 18 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 19 | He had already heard from the university that his research grant would not be extended . |
| 20 | He said he had n't heard from his former light-welterweight world champ brother Terry since revealing his sex-change plans . |
| 21 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 22 | He pushed on quickly with words in order to forget that tone he had never heard from her before . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish you 'd take me with you , ’ said Aelis from under the shadow of her tangled golden hair , in a tone he had never heard from her before . |