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 .
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