Example sentences of "[pron] could hear their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 2 | The playing stopped and I could hear their voices , Leon 's and Curtis 's , just the two of them in there . |
| 3 | ‘ I could hear their croaking and their arguments and they came ever nearer until suddenly out of the mist I saw the grey shadow of a wing and wet spike of a beak . |
| 4 | Little terns fished out at sea ; I could hear their squabblings as I walked across the sand hills . |
| 5 | Face in the damp mars , she could hear their pounding footbeats . |
| 6 | When at last she made her way downstairs towards the terrace , she could hear their voices speaking in English . |
| 7 | She could hear their voices from the sitting room . |
| 8 | And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation . |
| 9 | As we filmed the elephants in Amboseli National Park , East Africa , the animals sometimes wandered so close to us that we could hear their trunks ripping the grass and their stomachs churning . |
| 10 | We could hear their voices grow fainter . |