Example sentences of "[pron] could hear [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was more firing and I could hear chips of wood being torn from the trees . |
| 2 | As I walked forlornly around on my own , I could hear fragments of different conversations wafting over the music : |
| 3 | Cheerful crashes and bangs floated up from Doris 's kitchen as I went back upstairs , and I could hear outbursts of raucous male laughter and pinch-induced shrieks . |
| 4 | She could hear parts of the conversation between the two lost souls , and when Tess went back upstairs , Mrs Brooks crept quietly up to listen outside the bedroom door . |
| 5 | She could hear whoops of laughter . |
| 6 | From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’ |
| 7 | Although Hazel guessed that they must now have gone further from the warren than any rabbit he had ever talked to , he was not sure whether they were yet safely away : and it was while he was wondering — not for the first time — whether he could hear sounds of pursuit that he first noticed the dark masses of the trees and the brook disappearing among them . |
| 8 | He could hear snatches of conversation from across the room . |