Example sentences of "could [adv] hear [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 2 | It was obvious Irene could already hear wedding bells , and the patter of little feet . |
| 3 | There 's no point in me doing it I mean if I could just hear Ben going ah ah ah |
| 4 | I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone . |
| 5 | I could just hear Mr Rhys saying , Run away . |
| 6 | Some time , not that long ago , when the sun always shone , when you could still hear church bells over the roar of traffic , and when the bobby rode a bike not a panda . |
| 7 | The maid fled to her room but could still hear Mrs Putt 's shrill voice until there was a brief , muffled scream , followed by a whole series of sounds that might have been a fight . |
| 8 | He could still hear Caspar barking . |
| 9 | Even with the stethoscope in my ears I could still hear Beamish 's voice . |
| 10 | Cos I had a load of music on and you could still hear voice . |
| 11 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |
| 12 | From the sitting room he could still hear Plummer speaking . |
| 13 | He could distinctly hear voices which seemed to be coming from the parcels office next door . |
| 14 | You could also hear music at home on a wind-up gramophone with ten- or twelve-inch 78 r.p.m. bakelite records . |
| 15 | She helped Jenna out and they could both hear Alain on the phone in another room . |
| 16 | She could even hear background music , syrupy and soothing , in her head . |
| 17 | We could sometimes hear animals in the distance , but only caught fleeting glimpses of the occasional bird — a symptom of the large amount of illegal hunting that goes on . |
| 18 | Gazing down from his plinth in Lichfield , you could almost hear Dr Johnson muttering : ‘ Socialism , Sir , is a cow , which will yield such people no more milk — and so they are gone to milk the bull ’ . |
| 19 | She could almost hear Jake saying the words , full of soft urgency ; but what did they mean ? |
| 20 | I could almost hear voices . |
| 21 | I could almost hear Werewolf 's eyebrows go up as I counted out the cash . |
| 22 | A moment later , it seemed to Ronni , she could indeed hear music . |
| 23 | She could barely hear Marco 's reply for the noise . |