Example sentences of "they [vb past] heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | They audience was ready for a great star because they 'd heard that he was . |
| 2 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 3 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to think that our audience here came out because of the last gig , because that caused a real stir here and I 'd like to think they were here because they 'd heard it was special . |
| 5 | It was the first time they 'd heard him admit the Store was built by humans . |
| 6 | I hired my boat on Faarsay — that 's a little island south of Mull — and they 'd heard about Mrs Hamilton , but they did n't know my folks , so no one told me our house was let . ’ |
| 7 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 8 | Because they were concerned about rumours they 'd heard of staff shortages within the C E D G. |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 10 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 11 | Or so they 'd heard . |
| 12 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
| 13 | They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs . |
| 14 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 15 | It was the most shocking sound they 'd heard . |
| 16 | It was n't that they were prudish , I could tell they 'd heard it before . |
| 17 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 18 | They 'd heard it quite clearly . |
| 19 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 20 | William Hill yesterday quoted Travelling Light as their 7-2 market leader ( from 4-1 ) but added a ‘ with a run ’ proviso as they had heard that all was not well with the three-year-old , who is trained by Lynda Ramsden at Sandhutton near Thirsk . |
| 21 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 22 | They had heard noises of someone rising very early and felt apprehensive . |
| 23 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 24 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 25 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 26 | It said they all stood with bowed heads at the start of the meeting after they had heard of his death , ‘ and there was a silence that could be felt … . ’ |
| 27 | They had heard , or heard of , prophets such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel speaking of God being behind the disaster , of him fighting on the enemy side . |
| 28 | What they had heard in the yard and what they had seen upon investigating — spilled crates they attributed to rutting cats — would not be revealed until morning . |
| 29 | They had seen something , they had heard something , they had smelt something , but all those various sensations added up to nothing solid : nothing that was known , for certain . |
| 30 | People listened to their radios with scepticism , repeated what they had heard , and argued about it . |