Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could hear [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’ |
| 2 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 3 | When she woke , her husband had gone and outside she could hear horses in the street . |
| 4 | Outside he could hear children shouting on the lake . |
| 5 | Now we could hear nightingales again , singing against each other in the woodland scrub . |
| 6 | From behind he could hear horses whinneying , brakes applied , a crash and splintering wood . |
| 7 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 8 | She 's difficult to talk to , Penelope thought , moving towards a room where she could hear voices . |