Example sentences of "i can hear " in BNC.

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31 Oh — oh — oh — I can hardly breathe — oh I can hear thumping — it 's him , thumping after me …
32 I can see the candles on the mantlepiece , I can hear the tick-tock tick-tock of the clock in this comfort-house of my mind .
33 I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below …
34 Already I can hear some lady readers remark — ‘ What a horrible , male chauvinist pig that man Caplan is . ’
35 I can hear men shouting sometimes . ’
36 I can hear it . ’
37 ‘ I believe in what I can hear .
38 I can hear Kenneth running his bath .
39 I can hear NSS readers crying as with one voice across the world . )
40 Yes , already I can hear the sound of Naked Lunch parties taking place in my head .
41 I can hear the jingle now : ‘ Wonderful Radio 2 : Derek and Julian ’ .
42 But if the day is fine and still and I am alone , I can hear somewhere in myself the sound of the hollow-ended drums , the clapping , the tambourine , the young voices singing , laughing .
43 Course I can hear you .
44 I can hear the Ship . ’
45 I can hear her .
46 I can hear a chuckle in some quarters but I feel he never let England down .
47 Wife — Darling , I think I can hear burglars downstairs .
48 I can hear the ski lifts creaking in the wind and the sound of sand being dragged in gusts over the parked cars .
49 I can hear you , my lord ! ’
50 I can hear your strumming in your voice , you nasty boy . ’
51 Meanwhile , in an inner district of Istanbul , I can hear drunks arguing in the alleys of brothels , and the mosques chanting Ezan mournfully five times a day .
52 " I can hear him now , he 's moving . "
53 No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place .
54 I can hear a train go by .
55 Shh , shh , erm I can hear squealers , I believe squealers are working
56 Er , judging by the noise I can hear some people have finished , some people have extremely short statements of about what they think is important and some people have got no statements .
57 Suppose that I believe that there is a police car in the road outside because I can hear a police siren .
58 An I can hear loudly each word yu are saying ,
59 The human voices I can hear are inconsequential , like stray punctuation marks , or figures in a Paul Klee painting .
60 I can hear the
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