Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The factory inspectorate has never heard of their existence . |
| 2 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 3 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 4 | Given that it has never heard of Snell 's law , does it have to go through some alternative process of computation to adjust its angle-of-dive appropriately — and if so , what ? |
| 5 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 6 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 7 | People Howard has never heard of pick quarrels and pass out . |
| 8 | ‘ Mushy peas are described as the Caviar of the North , but the average Chinaman has never heard of caviar and thinks the ‘ North ’ is Outer Mongolia . ’ |
| 9 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd never heard of it . |
| 13 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 16 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 17 | Well , I 'd never heard of Lloyd 's . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 19 | I walked into this little club on the highway and I 'd never heard of them before , but there was this great , white blues band . |
| 20 | Report by Ms de Meaner Aside from Katie Mallett who , early on , informed me she would n't be entering this comp ( she 'd never heard of Summerhill ) , most of the regulars entered . |
| 21 | Even with no lesbian volunteers , some women continued to call ; women who 'd never heard of Lesbian Line , women who could n't call during the hours they were open , women who 'd swallowed media distortions of separatist groups , women who preferred the service or needed information Switchboard had . |
| 22 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 23 | He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 25 | I 'd never heard of it before , yet it 's so easy to catch — I got it purely from food . |
| 26 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 27 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 28 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 29 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 30 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |