Example sentences of "[noun sg] that he [verb] heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next year Meehan wrote to Beltrami that he had heard on the prison grapevine that Waddell 's accomplice at Ayr was a well-known Glasgow villain named William ( ‘ Tank ’ ) McGuinness , a vicious little man with a long record that included violence . |
| 2 | The man gave no indication that he had heard , and she frowned , a small , thin line etching itself into her smooth brow . |
| 3 | She also told the court that he 'd heard he 'd threatened to blow his head off . |
| 4 | He told the abbot of Fécamp that he had heard that there was a letter of Pope Eugenius ( obviously a corruption of Hyginus ) which had settled the question , but he had been unable to get any information about this alleged source . |
| 5 | In it he told the king that he had heard of the outbreak of war in Wales while ‘ ordering and attending to the state of my affairs in Champagne ’ . |
| 6 | For a moment Dick gave no sign that he had heard or understood . |
| 7 | Dyson gave no sign that he had heard . |
| 8 | Giving no sign that he had heard anything he went through his routine again . |
| 9 | Not a flicker of a smile disturbed that noble face , nor even an acknowledgement that he had heard . |
| 10 | The man claimed to have learnt self-control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ‘ profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ’ . |
| 11 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 12 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 13 | Five days later Ira Dilworth called me to his office where , in his kindly fashion , he expressed surprise that he had heard from the RCAF of my application before I had discussed it with him . |
| 14 | A French aid worker returned from South Africa telling the Catholic agency who had sponsored our film that he had heard she was dead . |