Sentence examples for has got wind from inspiring English sources

In one forthcoming case, he added, "the crown has got wind of what was coming up in the Lords and has dropped an anonymous witness".

* Glamour model-bothering Lembit Opik, former member for Montgomeryshire, has got wind of my sitcom idea, Anyone But Lembit, in which he plays himself striving in vain to win the Lib Dem mayoral candidacy.

Unfortunately, life on the farm has proved less satisfying than Alice had hoped, and in her frustration she has entered into an affair with a childhood friend, Connor MacKenzie, about which Robert Marshall has gotten wind.

Before their pub debut, Laura Ashworth (Tania Emery), a journalist who has gotten wind of their existence, is allowed into the inner circle on the pretext of writing about the exploitation of the disabled.

Another smoker has gotten wind of a rumor that a department chair is interviewing at another university and may not be around that much longer, turning the conversation to what that might mean for the department and the medical school.

On the rare occasion when the press has gotten wind of a freshman House Republican making a funding request, it has turned heads.

The army, which had got wind of the orders, countermanded them.

He had got wind of their having some value and had bought up the remaining manuscripts.

If the school authorities had got wind of it, they would have expelled the girl...

By late February, Mr. Spitzer had got wind of the secret talks.

"We've got wind in our hair, we're covered with water," Gordon said.