Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose they 'd ever heard of us . |
| 2 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 3 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 5 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 6 | They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’ |
| 7 | I then rang the Family Health Authority er myself , and they 'd never heard of the person and had no trace of of the name I gave them . |
| 8 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 9 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 10 | Each page is a game , with ideas like Missing Numbers introducing children to algebra long before they 've even heard of the word . |
| 11 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 12 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 13 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 14 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 15 | They 've never heard of him |
| 16 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 17 | I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of . |
| 18 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 19 | They had just partaken of ‘ bile beer ’ , as brewed and purveyed by Matt ‘ the tube ’ Crowley . |
| 20 | These soldiers appeared to have been hurriedly buried by the retreating Germans , they had probably died of their wounds . |
| 21 | They had both heard of this place , they both knew why they were here . |
| 22 | They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair . |
| 23 | They had never heard of Fulham . |
| 24 | It can be no coincidence that the famed Fund of Funds , which so many investors wish they had never heard of , was set up by Bernie Cornfield . |
| 25 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 26 | They had never heard of England , but thought it must be somewhere near Cairo . |
| 27 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 28 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 29 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |