Example sentences of "[pron] could hear [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear voices somewhere as I looked around , studying the portraits , examining the marquetry of the chairs and tables , all of which were ranged formally about the walls . |
| 2 | I could hear voices far away and then something hurt my shoulder . |
| 3 | She could hear voices ahead , a girl squealing , a man laughing . |
| 4 | She could hear stirrings upstairs and assumed that Matey , who often rose early when she could not sleep late , was on her way down to start her chores alongside McAllister . |
| 5 | On this day in early June , the foliage was so lush , and the birds at this crucial young-rearing stage so wary that , although we could hear birds all around us , not a glimpse of a feather would we see — unless we followed the Warden 's advice , and skulked . |
| 6 | Now we could hear nightingales again , singing against each other in the woodland scrub . |
| 7 | Other one would learnt how to open a crack , and it were in that cage , and it could hear birds outside . |
| 8 | He thought he could hear footsteps now , nailed boots scuffing on worn stone . |
| 9 | He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched . |