Example sentences of "[pron] could hear [pron] [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
| 2 | I could hear her giggles fading into the distance as I led the dog back into the house . |
| 3 | When at last she made her way downstairs towards the terrace , she could hear their voices speaking in English . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 6 | By this time our pursuer had joined the merry band on the peak , and we could hear his companions gasping not far behind him . |