Example sentences of "you [modal v] hear a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you listen very carefully to the background music , you might hear a clue to who has committed the crime , that 's if you know Morse code . |
| 2 | Listen to the powerful , sinewy , stop-start ‘ Tristessa ’ or the sledgehammer rattle of ‘ I Am One ’ ( both off the wild ‘ Gish ’ LP ) and you 'll hear a group that loves to have melodies buzzing through a lattice framework of rhythm , a group with chemistry and a group with a sense of direction . |
| 3 | It 's not often you 'll hear a batting order read , Christiansen , Mikkelsen , Nielson and Jensen … it 's not often you 'll hear them talk cricket in Danish … |
| 4 | You 'll hear a gun half an hour before the sun goes down to call you back . ’ |
| 5 | just breathing ; a dry electric wind you could hear a mile off . |
| 6 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 7 | The Calthorpe Arms at that time on a Monday evening was so busy and bustling that you could hear a beermat drop . |
| 8 | You could hear a pebble drop now . |
| 9 | There seems to be a ring of light round everything — It is still and sunny — so still you could hear a spider spin . |
| 10 | The other players carried on getting changed and opening lockers and stuff , but you could hear a pin drop . |
| 11 | If you dip the end of the wires in a stream where such fish are searching for food in the muddy bottom , you will hear a series of clicks . |
| 12 | By the way , if you can hear a word I say you 're better than I am . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it . |
| 14 | In their voices , you can hear a surplus of form over content , of genotext over phenotext , semiotic over symbolic , Barthes 's ‘ grain' ( the resistance of the body to the voice ) over technique . |
| 15 | ‘ I still think the great moments in acting are when a theatre audience lets out a big laugh at just the point when you want them to laugh — or when you can hear a pin drop because you 've got them totally captivated in the drama . ’ |
| 16 | You can hear a joke and see the funny side ca n't you ? |