Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [adv] heard from " in BNC.

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1 He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room .
2 Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ …
3 Cobalt called in the most enthusiastic tone she had ever heard from him .
4 He pushed on quickly with words in order to forget that tone he had never heard from her before .
5 ‘ I wish you 'd take me with you , ’ said Aelis from under the shadow of her tangled golden hair , in a tone he had never heard from her before .
6 ‘ Brilliant … best speech I have ever heard from a Scottish leader at conference , ’ enthused one MP .
7 And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents .
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