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 . |