Example sentences of "she hear a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
2 | ‘ Does she ask who it is first or does she just use it as soon as she hears a man 's voice ? ’ |
3 | She hears a beating of wings and sees the approach of the swan . |
4 | There is a hackle-raising moment when she hears a saxophone , but the hackles fall again when the Mistress of Ceremonies leaps up , marches outside , and bellows ‘ Not now , Christopher ! ! ’ to someone in a room upstairs . |
5 | Colin was just saying , I mean , his wife works in the office and she hears a lot of what 's going on . |
6 | In the other voice she hears a softness and immediately , softly then , she hears herself answering ‘ I 'll miss you . |
7 | She hears a cough from one of the sleepers up above . |
8 | Behind her she heard a yell , and urged the boatman on , over the dark , sinister lagoon . |
9 | The family were Presbyterians , and her conscious effort to acquire an education began at the age of six , when she heard a sermon she could not understand , and from that time she adopted a plan for acquiring information through asking the meaning of every new word she heard . |
10 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a clatter ! |
11 | She heard a madwoman howling — herself — but on market day , in St Jude 's , with the taverns serving gin and strong beer from five o'clock in the morning , who was likely to be disturbed by a little howling ? |
12 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a crash ! |
13 | As she pushed the key into the lock of the front door she heard a row going on . |
14 | It was then that she heard a whistling noise , and smelt a sickening odour . |
15 | Crunching up the gravel drive past a clump of rhododendrons , she heard a scuffle in the undergrowth . |
16 | His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled . |
17 | When she heard a knock at her door , she frowned and called out sharply , ‘ Come in . ’ |
18 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
19 | She bent her head into it as she crossed the yard , only to lift it up sharply as she heard a voice saying , ‘ Psst ! |
20 | Behind her , she heard a voice . |
21 | From a long way off she heard a voice say : ‘ Green as a piece of ripe Stilton … ’ and then the room disappeared . |
22 | She opened her copy of Baudelaire , which she had brought with her , and started to look at it , and shortly she heard a voice say , " Mademoiselle , je peux ? " and saw a man looking at her . |
23 | At times she heard a voice clearly , She can not mean it . |
24 | Suddenly she heard a voice , and she stopped crying to listen . |
25 | And when she prayed , she heard a voice in her head . |
26 | A necessary precaution — she heard a voice she imagined to be John-William Dallam 's say the words-to discourage others of her kind from following her criminal example . |
27 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
28 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
29 | At once the footsteps started after her , and she heard a voice calling out . |
30 | She heard a door open and close ; Mrs Gracie left her and hurried out of the room . |