Example sentences of "they had [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They had just partaken of ‘ bile beer ’ , as brewed and purveyed by Matt ‘ the tube ’ Crowley . |
| 3 | These soldiers appeared to have been hurriedly buried by the retreating Germans , they had probably died of their wounds . |
| 4 | They had both heard of this place , they both knew why they were here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had never heard of Fulham . |
| 7 | It can be no coincidence that the famed Fund of Funds , which so many investors wish they had never heard of , was set up by Bernie Cornfield . |
| 8 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 9 | They had never heard of England , but thought it must be somewhere near Cairo . |
| 10 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 11 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 12 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |
| 14 | And yet they had never spoken of their father 's death . |
| 15 | They had never spoken of the future and what would happen when their time was through but they would , because a love so consuming could n't just end this way . |
| 16 | Both insisted that they had never thought of themselves as husband and wife , and there was no reason why anyone else should do so . |
| 17 | At school they had once heard of some animal which had become extinct because of its huge flat feet . |
| 18 | It was the first time they had ever spoken of the affection they felt . |
| 19 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |
| 20 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |