Example sentences of "they have [adv] heard [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose they 'd ever heard of us . |
| 2 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 4 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 5 | They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’ |
| 6 | I then rang the Family Health Authority er myself , and they 'd never heard of the person and had no trace of of the name I gave them . |
| 7 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 8 | Each page is a game , with ideas like Missing Numbers introducing children to algebra long before they 've even heard of the word . |
| 9 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 10 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 11 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 12 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 13 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 14 | They 've never heard of him |
| 15 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 16 | I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of . |
| 17 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 18 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |
| 19 | She 'd rang the police and they had n't heard of any . |
| 20 | They had both heard of this place , they both knew why they were here . |
| 21 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 22 | ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . ) |
| 23 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had never heard of Fulham . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | They had never heard of England , but thought it must be somewhere near Cairo . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |