Example sentences of "[noun pl] and heard [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecstasy increased as Robyn looked deep into his eyes and heard the words she had hardly dared hoped for . |
| 2 | The appeal court will only interfere if there is a significant divergence from the norm ; here again they allow the trial judge a margin of appreciation because that judge has seen the parties and heard the evidence . |
| 3 | You have seen the television pictures and heard the words of the men from space . |
| 4 | Several times , late in the evening , we saw the whole northern sky illuminated by flares and heard the heavy , terrible rumblings of bombardment , although the city was 100 kilometres away . |
| 5 | When I saw those images and heard the Arabic voices in the back-ground I cried . |
| 6 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 7 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 8 | Rab weighed the cons and heard the rats . |
| 9 | They watched the dark-clad figures manoeuvre the stretcher up the stairs and heard the cries through the open door of the flat . |
| 10 | As the prophetic people flocked around Jesus , and as they saw the transformation in the lives of his disciples and heard the words of life and hope , they longed for a rebellion against the Roman occupation of Judea or a reformation of the Pharisaical law . |
| 11 | They had sat with their friends and heard the vilification of Hitler and the Third Reich at dinner parties , in the cinemas , on television and in books and newspapers . |
| 12 | I saw a sea of faces and heard the boos and catcalls of the crowd , cheated of their sport . |
| 13 | Later he spent an hour at the Scottish studies department , which he opened nearly 40 years ago , where he saw a display of Scottish artefacts and heard a rendition of Gaelic songs . |
| 14 | I watched the first of the Fleetwoods roar away with headlights shining and felt a nudge in the kidneys and heard a soft voice . |
| 15 | ‘ At Nairn we may fix the verge of the Highlands , for here I first saw peat fires and heard the Erse language . ’ |