Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] heard [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |
| 2 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 3 | Doogie 's idea of knocking on a door was to impersonate a heavy machine-gun and I 'd never heard him run out of ammunition . |
| 4 | I cleared my throat and kept on eating my burgers , pretending I had n't heard him properly . |
| 5 | I had n't heard it before , but I 'd already guessed that the tale would sound something like that . |
| 6 | ' I would n't have believed it if I had n't heard it myself , ’ said Cornelius . |
| 7 | I had n't heard he was in France . |
| 8 | " And I would n't have said a word , ducky , if I had n't heard you phoning that doctor . " |
| 9 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 10 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 11 | I had not heard it used by anybody else until it was uttered by Jim Taggart , well known to TV viewers as Glaswegian . |
| 12 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 13 | I had never heard him talk so much . |
| 14 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 15 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 16 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
| 17 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 18 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 19 | Teacher Hear — Student I 've already heard it . |
| 20 | Student I 've already heard it . |
| 21 | Teacher Heard — Student I 've already heard it . |
| 22 | I 've already heard it . |
| 23 | I 've already heard it " |
| 24 | When I hate doing it is with my own records ; I 've just heard it in my head for so long . |
| 25 | I 've just heard it you see , I wondered if it was being |
| 26 | Why , why you know , I 've even heard him speak a little French ? ’ |
| 27 | ( But I 've also heard her telling people what a baddie I was , too ) . |
| 28 | Fifteen years I 've known and that 's the first time I 've ever heard him swear . |
| 29 | First time I 've ever heard him |
| 30 | Francis was not totally disconsolate and added : ‘ The way our fans came behind us is the best I 've ever heard it here , and I hope it continues . |