Example sentences of "had heard [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vi had heard about such things . |
| 2 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 3 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 4 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 5 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 6 | She had heard of such mistakes . |
| 7 | He closed his fist on the gun ; he had heard of such weapons though never had one within his reach before . |
| 8 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 9 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 10 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 11 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 12 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 14 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 15 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 16 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 17 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 18 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 19 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 20 | No one among the instructors or instructees at London 's trendy Pineapple Dance studios had heard of these things , or thought the idea would catch on . |