Example sentences of "[conj] i have [adv] hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they produce one of the widest stereo sounds that I have ever heard . |
| 2 | Quite simply , this is one of the finest recordings of the piano concerto repertoire that I have ever heard ; it has depth , clarity and a real sense of perspective . |
| 3 | ‘ It is the most beautiful story that I have ever heard , ’ said the bigger girl . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State made one of the worst speeches that I have ever heard from a Minister in the House . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) included in his speech one of the pithiest denunciations of the rates that I have ever heard . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman made the weakest speech in favour of a guillotine motion that I have ever heard from a Leader of the House and that is saying something . |
| 7 | In Balakirev 's Islamey , for instance , he allows the beautiful second subject to sing out , slower and more meaningful , than I have ever heard it before , while his deadly accuracy and exquisite pianissimos produce a stillness in Liszt 's Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este that is rare indeed for such a fast moving piece . |
| 8 | This announcement comes only months after retirement from Midland Embalming Services and I have already heard stories of breakfast in bed and other luxuries associated with retirement ! |
| 9 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
| 10 | I asked him to play something else and I have never heard it since . |
| 11 | Their attack is always focused and clean and I have never heard a more searching account of the beautiful third Etude for violas and cellos , pour l'expression et le ‘ Sostenuto ’ . |
| 12 | We listened to my mother talking to her successor , and I have never heard such an example of civilisation and restraint . |
| 13 | I have listened to many of his speeches and I have never heard him advocate that before . |
| 14 | What this latter achieves I am not quite sure , but I have yet to hear of a gardener who has experienced any problems with free lime after following this recommendation . |
| 15 | … a particular account of the soil , productions , mountains and lakes which I observed in my journey thither … but I have lately heard that Reeves is taken by the French . |
| 16 | ‘ I know who John Thaw is of course , ’ he said , ‘ but I have never heard any gossip about him buying a house here . |
| 17 | But I have never heard him confess his unworthiness in this field of human endeavour . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 19 | I still write Upholland as one word because I have never heard anyone say ‘ uffolstery ’ when they are talking about furniture . |
| 20 | These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it . |
| 21 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 22 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 23 | The very next piece of text in it is the song ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , which is not in the score — though we know it was sung in the 1692 production because it is in the Select Songs . |
| 24 | And this would explain a further problem affecting the order of things in the quarto : this song comes between the Dialogue of Coridon and Mopsa — the Haymakers ' scene — and the Dance of Haymakers which directly follows it in the score and belongs to it musically in every way : both are in G major and a quick 6/4 , and share the same bucolic atmosphere as well as their thematic material , whereas ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ is a sophisticated song in C major and stately triple time . |
| 25 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 26 | For I have only to hear an opera discussed , I have only to sit in a theatre , hear the orchestra tuning their instruments — oh , I am quite beside myself at once . |
| 27 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |