Example sentences of "have heard " in BNC.
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| 31 | The younger O'Sullivans liked to tell this macabre tale and it is very possible that Poe , too , may have heard it . |
| 32 | She 'll have heard through the family grapevine . |
| 33 | You should have heard the crowd . |
| 34 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 35 | Indeed , you may even have heard some of these dirty rumours yourself . |
| 36 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 37 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 38 | Since anti-Semitism was such a prominent feature of the Party 's public image , and that of its leader , whom many must have heard speak in person in the Munich beerhalls , it seems certain that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ ranked highly as a motivational factor at this date for the Movement 's recruits , often coming to the NSDAP from other anti-Semitic organizations and völkisch groups . |
| 39 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 40 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 41 | ‘ You might have heard of this — potheen ! ’ he said with a smile on his return . |
| 42 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 43 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 44 | All the time she dashed through the streets , fighting her way through the hubbub , Wilson looked for Mr Browning , knowing he must have heard by now and would surely be rushing to his wife 's side . |
| 45 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 46 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 47 | The way information zoomed round Shellerton , anyone theoretically could have heard of the lost camera and the way to find it . |
| 48 | ‘ She 'd have heard if our plane had crashed . |
| 49 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 50 | He must have heard what happened because he never came back . |
| 51 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 52 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 53 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 54 | The wind whipped the words away and they were lost in the gale but someone must have heard the banging . |
| 55 | From his next communication I should have heard the warning note : |
| 56 | It was in French North Africa that British airborne troops had first been deployed on any scale , and Leslie would have heard of their exploits in seizing airfields and other strategic points in Algeria and Tunisia . |
| 57 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 58 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 59 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 60 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |