Example sentences of "heard of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you sort of like say for instance erm we heard of recent burglary . |
| 2 | Only I heard of stranger things . |
| 3 | Gypsy women were chaste before wedlock and Chilcott might have called off the arrangement if he heard of such liberties being taken . |
| 4 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 5 | … and Lexandro heard of such incidents of the campaign as the Battle of the Glass Bell Temple , and of the Sixty Suicide Skaters who had swooped on Brothers of the Fourth Company clutching melta-bombs , and how the Fifth and Seventh and Eighth Companies had found themselves confronted , to their astonishment , by Titans … |
| 6 | Never in all his experience , wrote Taylor , had he seen or heard of such covenants in a mining lease . |
| 7 | I heard of one guy , he 's just arrived , gets in this taxi . |
| 8 | The group may be very large ( only recently I heard of one group of over thirty people ) , but ideally it should be small . |
| 9 | Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do . |
| 10 | I heard of this place and felt interested , ’ she informed him with truth , or at least part truth . |
| 11 | ‘ You heard of this place from as far afield as the capital city ? |
| 12 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 13 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 14 | Baxter heard of whole households being converted through reading this book in his own day . |
| 15 | We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds . |
| 16 | You heard of Indian Agents if they were very good , like John Clum , or if they were bad and got caught dealing poorly with the Indians for their own personal gain . |
| 17 | He had heard of Chinese rooms , heard of Chinese Chippendale , but he had never seen a room furnished in the style . |
| 18 | We never heard any grumbling , everyone ate everything and we never heard of any health problems ( if there were any ) ; it was totally refreshing for all to be themselves and be accepted as they were . |
| 19 | I never heard of these scripts again and they were never broadcast to my knowledge , but , for whatever interest they may have , I included one of them in my collection of short stories , scripts and plot summaries under the title ‘ Bits and Pieces ’ to be published one day . |
| 20 | ‘ My lord came down here from the town when he heard of these outlaws passing this way , but never a glimpse of them have we encountered since . |