Example sentences of "never heard [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And the family was never heard of again .
2 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 .
3 It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time .
4 ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful .
5 BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire .
6 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 .
7 I had never heard of it before , but it was certainly something that I would look out for in the future with much apprehension .
8 She had never heard of it in all her time in the house .
9 As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested .
10 The factory inspectorate has never heard of their existence .
11 They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair .
12 Never heard of him . ’
13 ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’
14 I lost 28 men , simple peasants who had never heard of Karl Marx or Toby Low . ’
15 If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of
16 The New Zealand Government 's Department of Conservation therefore proposed the introduction of restrictions on the use of set-nets around Banks Peninsula , through the use of an Act of Parliament which most New Zealanders had probably never heard of .
17 Never heard of them .
18 He 'd never heard of it .
19 Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense .
20 He had never heard of God …
21 Never heard of it .
22 Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them .
23 Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’
24 To my surprise , she had never heard of harvest festivals .
25 ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him .
26 I spent the night thankfully unaware of the marathon needlework going on in my chest and drifted back late in the morning to a mass of tubes and machines and techniques I 'd never heard of .
27 He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’
28 Nothing near as tasty and tender as our … ’ and , her mouth overflowing with steak , beans and croquette potato , Mitzi named an Austrian breed Elisabeth had never heard of ( and did not imagine she would need to remember for future use ) .
29 In my ignorance , I had never heard of this extraordinary saga , and I did indeed spend some absorbing time in the church learning something about it .
30 A spokesman for The Magistrates Association said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this happening before . ’
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