Sentence examples for that got wind from inspiring English sources

But you probably don't remember reading about his initial kidnapping because the Times, as well as other major outlets that got wind of the story, agreed to maintain a news blackout on the abduction, after numerous experts suggested that publicity would make Mr Rohde's captors more likely to kill him.

When serious injuries occur aboard racing boats, they generally result from a head-first encounter with an untamed mainsail boom or spinnaker pole, or from a finger or hand that gets wound into a line under load.

Explanations for the change differ: the FAI subsequently said that it got wind that Fifa were planning to impose Paris anyway so decided to pull a stroke on the Spanish, agreeing to their Paris proposal on the condition that the FAI got all of the gate receipts.

It was just a little over a year-and-a-half ago that we got wind that supermodel Gisele Bundchen and football player Tom Brady's Brentwood, California home was complete.

Others speculate that, having got wind of the fact that Swiss prosecutors had him in their sights, he simply resolved to bring Platini down with him.

Mr. Radoff suspects that somebody got wind of what he was doing, and he believes that the city is now taking its revenge in an exquisitely painful way.

They suggest that Lyell warned him not to write on man, informing him that Richard Owen got "wind" of what Darwin was up to, so Darwin did not want to add more fuel to those who were gearing to tear into his evolutionary ideas.

He told reporters at Monday's practice that he "got wind of" the restricted diet only when Anthony mentioned it Sunday, but said he was not concerned that his star player had not informed him during the past two weeks that he drastically changed his eating habits and that he was feeling some energy loss as a result.

Ms. Dyson-Hudson, the 1947 winner, recalled that she got wind of the contest at the last chance to apply because it had received so little publicity.

Some of Autonomy's former managers, it said (naming no individuals), had inflated the company's figures before the acquisition.HP says that it got wind of all this a couple of weeks after Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder and former chief executive (pictured), was forced out in late May.

It was later revealed that Hastert got wind of Foley's conduct, but didn't discipline him, and Hastert was forced to apologize.