Sentence examples for they got wind of it from inspiring English sources

The generals, when they got wind of it, chased their men back to their trenches and forced them to resume waging war.

The journalists, from the minute they got wind of it, only a little after she came to be, camped outside her mothers' delivery room, determined to be the first to explain the phenomenon.

I think they got wind of it, and the next thing he's telling me I'm banned, and I had a big argument with this bloke.

To which her husband responds, "Whether it's big or small, Anna, if they get wind of it, it'll cost us our lives".

But once they got wind of Minter's intention to release it for other devices, a considerable bug lodged itself inside their collective arse, and plans for the ports have been categorically kiboshed.

They said they got wind of possible abuse at St . Michael-St

Had they got wind of the fact that the Beeb won just three awards, Monkey wonders?

And that was before they got wind of that sixth finger.

The N.A.A.C.P. got wind of it, and its chief Washington lobbyist, Clarence Mitchell, called McDonough's wife to warn her.

When the Chinese government got wind of it, they immediately detained me.

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