Example sentences of "i heard of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 2 | The last I heard of Ralph Horton was when Dave chucked him and went with Ken Pitt . ’ |
| 3 | I heard of it indirectly , and from different sources : ‘ even the telephone torn from its moorings ! ’ , ‘ chamber-pots smashed , windows smashed , doors kicked in ! ’ , ‘ things thrown about , things broken , things taken away — there was hardly a house in the village that did not get something ! ’ |
| 4 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 5 | The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 7 | I heard of one guy , he 's just arrived , gets in this taxi . |
| 8 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 9 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 10 | I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer . |
| 11 | Over the weekend I heard of the case of the disappearing Times Atlas , the one in five volumes . |
| 12 | I heard of your problems with Selkirk . |
| 13 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 14 | I 'd bought a TV from the man in the chip shop , and as the black-and-white box heated up it stank of grease and fish , but late at night I heard of cults and experiments in living , in California . |
| 15 | My curiosity was first aroused some ten years ago when I heard of something being called the ‘ Freshwater Moray Eel ’ . |
| 16 | The group may be very large ( only recently I heard of one group of over thirty people ) , but ideally it should be small . |
| 17 | Barts holds contracts from more health authorities than any other : success in the internal market if ever I heard of it . |
| 18 | ‘ Sure , I heard of the game , but computer games ai n't exactly my strong suit , ’ he says . |
| 19 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 20 | I heard of one 35-year-old secretary who bought a special offer at a solarium , soaked up 50 half-hour sessions of artificial sun in ten weeks , and found her shins covered with large , dark , irregular freckles that remained and spread . |
| 21 | With a grin , Doyle said , ‘ I heard of a German bloke who kept one of our lads hidden for years after the War . |
| 22 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 23 | And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio . |
| 24 | I heard of some . |
| 25 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 26 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 27 | I had a feeling it would be the last I heard of him . |
| 28 | I heard of some spectacular changes in services available to patients in fundholding practices . |
| 29 | I heard of Korea and the Festival of Britain , the A bomb and the N bomb . |
| 30 | And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did . |