Example sentences of "she heard him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not crackers , ’ she thought she heard him say next , through high-volume Madonna . |
| 2 | She heard him drive off . |
| 3 | She heard him go quickly into all the rooms one by one . |
| 4 | SHe heard him laugh , heard him say something . |
| 5 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 6 | After a moment or two she heard him call , ‘ Turn the ignition key , ’ and when she did so , the engine fired . |
| 7 | One youngster who loved to recite to him felt utterly rejected when she heard him remark that ‘ some unsuccessful applicants were no better than this child ’ . |
| 8 | She heard him grunt , then call out : |
| 9 | Thankfully , she heard him groan , as she moved him . |
| 10 | She heard him say that he was still flying as planned , but would be departing somewhat later than originally intended . |
| 11 | When he had dressed himself he went back out of the kitchen door ; no doubt Ellen would latch it again once she heard him go , her vengeance at what life had done to her completed . |
| 12 | He began to kiss her , and at the touch of his mouth her own responded , grew soft and yielding ; she felt her breasts prick and grow sharp , her limbs tremble ; through it all she heard him speak , against her . |
| 13 | She heard him , incredulously , go on to tell her she could take herself off . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me comfort you , ’ she heard him whisper . |
| 15 | He had no doubt that his mother was in her bedroom and that if she heard him she would come into his room and it would start , he knew it would : the upbraiding of Martin , and he would n't be able to stand it without checking her . |
| 16 | The sergeant marched to the middle of the stage and when , using what he called his stage expertise , she heard him say , ‘ Now I give you three guesses who comes next , ’ there followed ribald suggestions from different parts of the hall . |
| 17 | She heard him open and close the front door . |
| 18 | She heard him coming back up the stairs , she knew his limping step now . |
| 19 | He did n't know whether she heard him , she gave no sign . |
| 20 | She was deeply upset when she heard him say : ‘ Whatever happens I will always love you . ’ |
| 21 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 22 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 23 | She heard him but kept her back turned so that she would have his arms around her and then she could wriggle inside them to face him . |
| 24 | She heard him making little noises with his lips and tongue as if preparing to speak . |
| 25 | She heard him , now . |
| 26 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 27 | She heard him slam the front room door and went back into the bedroom . |
| 28 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 29 | She heard him come quietly up the stairs ; she heard the clink of vase and saucer . |
| 30 | As he bent to her , she thought she heard him murmur , ‘ Well , well , well . |