Example sentences of "have heard " in BNC.

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1 You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one .
2 ‘ And you might have heard her , darling . ’
3 You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw .
4 Few former colleagues had much idea of what anthropology was and many seemed never to even have heard the word .
5 The Flemyng entourage , he said to himself , now what will he find fault with today , and what news will he have heard ?
6 Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ .
7 It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer .
8 Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne .
9 And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too .
10 The civilian operator who took the SOS call may have heard the voice of her killer .
11 They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means .
12 He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday .
13 The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation .
14 There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely .
15 You should have heard some of the stories that went round when you first came to Easton …
16 People are n't going to request your record unless they have heard of it , and finally , they wo n't have heard of your record unless it has been promoted properly through the usual channels of TV , radio , music press , national press and live shows .
17 Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’
18 It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib .
19 It might not have been near them , of course , but it was so big they 'll likely have heard of it . ’
20 ‘ You would have heard officially on Monday but I thought why not tell you now and save you a week-end 's worry .
21 As you may have heard , I shall be joining the workparty from July 27th – August 15th .
22 As you may have heard me mention already , I am involved in organising a one month summer school for 40 soviet teachers of English this July .
23 You may have heard of his kid brother .
24 The other argument is , of course , would anyone ever have heard of David if it was n't for Tony ?
25 That is a book you must often have heard of — a series of letters between two lovers ; Julie and Saint-Preux .
26 Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean .
27 If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church .
28 He thought he could n't have heard right .
29 He would have heard him .
30 Surely I should have heard .
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