Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I 'd heard of La Flaxperson , a crowbar might help . |
| 2 | Not mad , though , more oblivious from what I 'd heard . ’ |
| 3 | I find much of what I 've heard is implausible . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not a subject I know much about , only what I 've heard and read . |
| 5 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 6 | Eh , that 's different from what I 've heard . |
| 7 | It 's different to what I 've heard , very few I 've met have . |
| 8 | " It 's just as well , dear Sister Anne , from what I 've heard of my new mistress . " |
| 9 | Well , you might say you 're glad to see me but , in view of what I 've heard , perhaps you 're not . " |
| 10 | You were just saying , you know , that we should just walk in the streets and things like , but I would just not walk out in the streets at night , I 've got to be in the car with the doors locked and , and I just would n't walk out in the streets at night , not because any thing has happened to me , but its just through what I 've heard , I 'm just terrified . |
| 11 | ‘ Not that there are many left now in any case from what I 've heard , ’ said the male . |
| 12 | ‘ I must tell you what I 've heard , although my life is in danger if I do . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you what I 've heard . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to go in any of the women 's services after what I 've heard from Eileen , ’ Anne said . |
| 15 | ‘ Not from what I 've heard , ’ she said , and John asked in surprise , ‘ Why ? |
| 16 | From what I 've heard he did n't take his car and he did n't take one of his vans either . ’ |
| 17 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 18 | On the contrary , he informed her , ‘ I 've run a few checks on you , and I like what I 've heard . |
| 19 | From what I 've heard , you and Lissa go back some years , too . |
| 20 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 21 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
| 22 | I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in . |
| 23 | Certainly from what I 've heard , things would never have happened the way they did , and I think from the sort of very short dealings I had with him , things would n't have happened they way they did . |
| 24 | That 's not what I 've heard and I 've been asking around about you . |
| 25 | Bit rich from what I 've heard , but unfortunate . |
| 26 | just mention what I 've heard , the only statutory job he could do , is apply his licence in . |
| 27 | As I look back on what happened this morning and this evening , er er nothing I 've er suggests to me that any one sector should be discounted at present and I think er on the basis of what I 've heard at the moment , erm all the sectors that er that we 've discussed today , er are still in the frame . |
| 28 | Erm although we we have n't really really discussed this , I suspect that given the the scale of development proposed in in Selby District , it 's it 's quite likely on the basis of what I 've heard from Mr , that Leeds are going to raise objections to development on on the western side of Selby District generally because that that area is just as close to Leeds . |
| 29 | and you know , tonight , tonight , tonight I wanted to , I wanted to have a knock about with my old sparring partner but he 's ill , he 's very ill from what I 've heard tonight and he should go see a doctor . |
| 30 | He 's single too , from what I 've heard . ’ |