Example sentences of "[noun] heard be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words must have issued straight through the mouth of the now defunct Repo Man , because the next thing Rex heard was a small green cry of , ‘ We 're rumbled , chief , ’ followed by much scrambling and scurrying and an increasingly distant voice going , ‘ Faster , chief . |
| 2 | Apart from the two singles , the only new non-Ukrainian songs fans heard were contained on a John Peel session broadcast in May , and one of those was a madcap cover of Altered Image 's ‘ Happy Birthday ’ . |
| 3 | The noise Hugh heard was a |
| 4 | One of the last speeches that the Conference heard was a very emotional speech from a delegate from , Russia , within a winds breath of Chernobyl . |
| 5 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 6 | During his campaign Mr Pink appeared in national newspapers , on television and wrote what the tribunal heard was a ‘ torrent of words , ’ including letters to the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The sentences heard were either normal prose ( e.g. Some thieves stole most of the lead off the roof ) or syntactic prose ( e.g. No buns puzzle some in the lead off the text ) which was syntactically correct but semantically anomalous . |
| 8 | When Carter a few minutes later in the debate said , ‘ I asked my ( eight-year-old ) daughter Amy last night what she thought … ’ , what the audience heard was : ‘ I 'd better try to find a warm human illustration before it 's too late . ’ |
| 9 | M-PEOPLE : ‘ Northern Soul ’ re-promoted debut from Mike Pickering and Paul Heard 's disco tinged house outfit , including the hit singles |
| 10 | Jazzman Dexter Gordon in his final role as the awakened musician/dreamer Rolando proves he could have not one but two brilliant careers , old stage trouper Gloria Harper gives her awakened mad flapper full flight and John Heard is a rock of cynicism as the hard bitten hospital administrator . |
| 11 | Shand is not unlike John Heard 's crippled alcoholic in Cutter 's Way , the year 's other stand-out movie , raging against the dying light , fulminating at forces beyond his control . |
| 12 | The last thing Chrissie heard was that name again , spoken like an expletive . |