Example sentences of "hear of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard of a pub crawl … but a hospital crawl ? |
| 2 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 3 | And the family was never heard of again . |
| 4 | Oft have I heard of you , my Lord Berowne , |
| 5 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 6 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 7 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 8 | Unmarried , his heir is his second cousin , once removed , Mr. Alfred Blacker who is believed to live in Hobart , Tasmania , where he was last heard of working as a Real Tennis professional . ’ ’ |
| 9 | When last heard of — in the early Seventies — he had returned to the United States and was apparently working in a fast food restaurant . |
| 10 | ‘ Well it 's the first I 've heard of it , frankly . ’ |
| 11 | When television 's Gardeners ' World heard of their plight they set about lending a hand . |
| 12 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
| 13 | Every man from nineteen to twenty-three is liable , except for married men with two or more children , and sailors , and apprentices — whoever heard of apprentices as old as that ? ’ he jeered , and the crowd jeered with him . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody south of Perth had heard of malt whisky in those days , ’ he said , ‘ so I took a bottle and six glasses into my final crit . |
| 15 | The Weisshorn , Jungfrau , Grandes Jorasses and Mont Blanc will be familiar names , but have you heard of the Parrotspitze of Vincent Pyramide ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 17 | It could be a trick , an impression ( we 've heard of a dog who impersonates an anteater ! ) it 's up to you . |
| 18 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 19 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 20 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 21 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 22 | If he believes that many of those millions have even heard of the party , he will believe anything . |
| 23 | One of the youngest brigadiers in the British Army ; deputy chairman of the Conservative Party ; chairman of a major insurance company ; Warden of Winchester College — these are all solid achievements , but it is safe to guess that until this trial started most people had never heard of him . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've heard of the thin red line ; we are the thin black one , ’ said one before disappearing inside . |
| 25 | How many , for example , have heard of the Swiss-born conductor Paul Sacher ? |
| 26 | I had never heard of it before , but it was certainly something that I would look out for in the future with much apprehension . |
| 27 | We are not aware that Macmillan had ever heard of Bethune-Baker . |
| 28 | Currently , most people wo n't go and see a band who they have n't heard of . |
| 29 | Similarly , people tend to assume that if they have heard of a band , then they are probably worth going to see . |
| 30 | If only one of those people is wondering what to do on a Friday night , thumbs through the listings , spots your band 's name , and thinks ‘ I 've heard of that band , they must be worth seeing ’ , that sticker , which cost you less than a penny , has been very cost effective . |