Example sentences of "she heard [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind her she heard a yell , and urged the boatman on , over the dark , sinister lagoon . |
| 2 | The family were Presbyterians , and her conscious effort to acquire an education began at the age of six , when she heard a sermon she could not understand , and from that time she adopted a plan for acquiring information through asking the meaning of every new word she heard . |
| 3 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a clatter ! |
| 4 | She heard a madwoman howling — herself — but on market day , in St Jude 's , with the taverns serving gin and strong beer from five o'clock in the morning , who was likely to be disturbed by a little howling ? |
| 5 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a crash ! |
| 6 | As she pushed the key into the lock of the front door she heard a row going on . |
| 7 | It was then that she heard a whistling noise , and smelt a sickening odour . |
| 8 | Crunching up the gravel drive past a clump of rhododendrons , she heard a scuffle in the undergrowth . |
| 9 | His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled . |
| 10 | When she heard a knock at her door , she frowned and called out sharply , ‘ Come in . ’ |
| 11 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 12 | She bent her head into it as she crossed the yard , only to lift it up sharply as she heard a voice saying , ‘ Psst ! |
| 13 | Behind her , she heard a voice . |
| 14 | From a long way off she heard a voice say : ‘ Green as a piece of ripe Stilton … ’ and then the room disappeared . |
| 15 | She opened her copy of Baudelaire , which she had brought with her , and started to look at it , and shortly she heard a voice say , " Mademoiselle , je peux ? " and saw a man looking at her . |
| 16 | At times she heard a voice clearly , She can not mean it . |
| 17 | Suddenly she heard a voice , and she stopped crying to listen . |
| 18 | And when she prayed , she heard a voice in her head . |
| 19 | A necessary precaution — she heard a voice she imagined to be John-William Dallam 's say the words-to discourage others of her kind from following her criminal example . |
| 20 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 21 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 22 | At once the footsteps started after her , and she heard a voice calling out . |
| 23 | She heard a door open and close ; Mrs Gracie left her and hurried out of the room . |
| 24 | Over the line she heard a door slam in Yorick 's flat . |
| 25 | Suddenly , she heard a door wrenched open , footsteps running , and then Damian banging loudly at her door , rattling the handle . |
| 26 | She heard a man 's voice say , ‘ Quiet , James ! ’ and then the door was opened by Roger himself . |
| 27 | She had taken the curtain in one hand when she heard a man 's voice . |
| 28 | One traveller said that she heard a man whistling , then hear gunshots . |
| 29 | Just then she heard a noise . |
| 30 | ‘ No , the neighbour said she heard a noise and thought Minnie was being burgled so her son got through the window and let her in . |