Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] [pron] hear the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 2 | He lies down if he hears the National Anthem . |
| 3 | Since the above experience we four men always go down when we hear the bombs whizz , and perhaps we remember that experience when we hear the plane above droning overhead and we wonder where those bombs will drop this time . |
| 4 | She was about to pop them in when we heard the strains of the rag and boneman 's cry . |
| 5 | She began to drift and was just dozing off when she heard the squeak of Nathan 's deck shoes on the ladder . |
| 6 | Scott looked up as he heard the key turn in the lock . |
| 7 | Because I think in the so called Good Old Days , you always did stand up when you heard the National Anthem played . |
| 8 | Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences . |
| 9 | He even holds back when we hear the car pull away , and I would n't blame him for a moment . |
| 10 | He did n't turn round when he heard the door bang . |