Example sentences of "and i heard " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , mate , it 's only my fun , but Jack and me heard that one our last term at school . |
| 2 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 3 | In the distance a square of light flickered and I heard music swelling . |
| 4 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 5 | Doors shut everywhere , and I heard the landlady give a loud ‘ Shh ! ’ |
| 6 | He pressed a button , and I heard B. B. singing in a voice midway between high-pitched Irish balladeering and smooth country and western crooning , able to leap in two directions . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ’ |
| 8 | The knocking that had woken me was repeated , and I heard Masha 's voice . |
| 9 | The rest of the squad fell to one knee , and I heard the smart click of rifle bolts … |
| 10 | His wife answered and I heard a background conversation before she came back to the phone . |
| 11 | There was a loud burst of laughter behind me and I heard the Belgian clergyman exclaim : ‘ That is really heretical ! positively heretical ! ’ then laugh loudly himself . |
| 12 | I heard Alec saying , in a voice that tried to be light and urgent at the same time , ‘ We 're ready , sir , ’ and I heard the reply : ‘ Well I 'm not . |
| 13 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 14 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 15 | But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’ |
| 16 | So he goes back and I heard no more of it . |
| 17 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 18 | He then went downstairs , and I heard my mother join him . |
| 19 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 20 | Then the line went dead and I heard the dialling tone . |
| 21 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 22 | And the heart-beat grew louder and louder and closer to my ear , and I heard the deep booming sound of the sea at its very deepest depths , where monsters live in total darkness and corpses of drowned sailors lie in coral dust . |
| 23 | I was playing with my trucks and my action garage , and I heard you say you liked it . ’ |
| 24 | To my surprise the house lights were full on , and I heard the sounds of the violin coming from our big room . |
| 25 | I had letters which started , ‘ We were travelling up the motorway from London to Glasgow and I heard you … ’ or ‘ I live in Devon but I was staying in Leicester when I heard you . |
| 26 | He was born around the Darlington area and I heard that his family once had money , but lost it in some way . |
| 27 | When I was a child they killed one close by me and I heard the squealing . |
| 28 | And I heard them talking — Mum and Dad and Steven and Derek . |
| 29 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 30 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |