Example sentences of "i can hear [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can hear a woman calling ‘ Benjy , Benjy ’ and I turn round to see what 's up . |
| 2 | Somewhere distant , faint , off to my right , I can hear a cuckoo calling as he moves among the coppices and hedgerows . |
| 3 | I can hear a chuckle in some quarters but I feel he never let England down . |
| 4 | I can hear a train go by . |
| 5 | Suppose that I believe that there is a police car in the road outside because I can hear a police siren . |
| 6 | Outside I can hear a sound which is also achingly familiar to me : someone is trimming the grass outside with shears . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't see , but I can hear a finger move . |
| 8 | I can hear a muffled distant television , Jancey is still chatting next door , and someone outside is calling goodnight . |
| 9 | Let's go — I think I can hear a van in the driveway . ’ |
| 10 | In my neighbourhood I can hear a sampling of Spanish , Portuguese , Chinese , Urdu , Polish , Italian and West Indian English when I take my children across the street to the park . |
| 11 | I can hear a car coming . |
| 12 | I can hear a car , I think there 's one gon na come round the corner |
| 13 | I can , I can hear a bird singing |
| 14 | ‘ I can hear an engine . ’ |
| 15 | I can hear the dogs panting ahead and occasionally I am flurried by snow kicked up from a runner . |
| 16 | I can hear the sea |
| 17 | I can hear the murmur of it all in my head , and smell the sweet air . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yes , already I can hear the sound of Naked Lunch parties taking place in my head . |
| 20 | I can hear the jingle now : ‘ Wonderful Radio 2 : Derek and Julian ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I can hear the Ship . ’ |
| 22 | I can hear the ski lifts creaking in the wind and the sound of sand being dragged in gusts over the parked cars . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I can hear the |
| 25 | I can hear the sounds of the wood burning in the fire , and the big clock on the stairs . |
| 26 | I can hear the sound of the wood burning in the fire and the clock on the stairs . |
| 27 | The window is open and I can hear the sound of the wind in the branches . |
| 28 | Birds call from the trees above and I can hear the distant sound of traffic on the main road , through the forest . |
| 29 | ‘ I can hear the Looms , ’ said Caspar . |
| 30 | It 's five in the morning and I can hear the first cars swooshing through empty streets . |