Example sentences of "you hear a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details are indeed slavishly attended to : at the ‘ cry of women ’ you hear a light offstage wailing ; when the owl shrieks after Duncan 's death , we get a ‘ tu-whit-tu-whoo ’ . |
| 2 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 3 | One day when we were at the hospital , Michael was undressing behind screens preparing for his treatment and I was helping him ; and we heard the radiographer say , ‘ If you hear a lot of laughter coming from behind those screens , Doctor , it 's only the Homes . |
| 4 | And you know right away when you hear a Chicago blues song and you know if it 's a New Orleans song . |
| 5 | Lazaris uses the following analogy : Imagine that you hear a little voice squeaking for help . |
| 6 | Suddenly you hear a rattling at the back door . |
| 7 | You hear a slang word in a pub or shop in Manchester , you 'll hear it in Coronation Street three weeks later . |
| 8 | If you hear a good song you tell all your friends about it but radio never breaks anything new . |
| 9 | ‘ If you hear a good song you tell all your friends about it but radio never breaks anything new . ’ |
| 10 | Mention his name to these pre-war survivors and you hear a sound like soup sucked through clenched teeth . |
| 11 | The next time you hear a noisy 747 thundering over your roof in the early hours of the morning — you can smile and sleep well in the knowledge that the airline have just been fined one third of a landing fee , approximately £1,300 ! |
| 12 | In factories you hear a lot , in factories . |
| 13 | It is n't often that you hear a genuine story of a tail wagging the dog but spreadsheets and personal computers are just such a case . |
| 14 | You hear a single whistle call |
| 15 | ‘ I Believe ’ and ‘ Rachel ’ , already released as singles , will stand the test of time , but it is n't until you hear a song like ‘ Buffaloes ’ , with its breathy vocal and unashamedly pretty piano , that you see how and why Swim stand to make a big impression , if not here then in America , where their musical heart has its spiritual home . |
| 16 | A similar pattern emerged from a second kind of monitoring — rhyme monitoring — in which subjects were given an instruction like Press the button whenever you hear a word rhyming with ‘ bread ’ . |
| 17 | An example would be , if there 's er a strange person g gone up the neighbour 's drive , you know they 're on holiday and you hear a window smash , you need the police there straight away to deal with that . |
| 18 | If you hear a beep when you press one of these arrow keys then there are no more records to be found . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes you hear a knock on the door and you do n't even want to answer because you do n't know who it is . |
| 20 | As soon as you hear a reference to Third World you know what it means even if some of its shades of meaning are deleterious to your grand hopes of creating One World out of its lunatic divisions and separatisms . |
| 21 | Then you hear a rumour : a woman in the next ward |
| 22 | Perhaps if you hear a thing told often enough , it makes it true . |
| 23 | ‘ I Believe ’ and ‘ Rachel ’ , already released as singles , will stand the test of time , but it is n't until you hear a song like ‘ Buffaloes ’ , with its breathy vocal and unashamedly pretty piano , that you see how and why Swim stand to make a big impression , if not here then in America , where their musical heart has its spiritual home . |
| 24 | Well it was something that you hear a lot about it and er I 've never done anything about it and it 's cos I 'm starting to think towards the future and it 's gon na be nice to know that I 'm gon na have a pound or two to go and do what I want when I retire . |
| 25 | The whole of Britain … seems to have caught it … the symptoms … you hear a racing car at full throttle in the ears … you go misty eyed at the sight of union jacks waving in the wind and then you start talking … rambling about red five … its a new disease … they 're calling it Mansell Mania … |
| 26 | Very seldom you hear a dog or a in pain . |
| 27 | Ooh there was a car out here last night Hazel and it was revving up then you hear a door go , and they were n't closing it 's bang ! |
| 28 | the , flu , I mean , you hear a lot of people |
| 29 | But like , Mi Miss said to me , when I went up there , she said , ah I know , she said , you hear a lot of bad stuff about Ryan , she said , but he 's a nice , he 's a nice little boy really , and she said , he 's very polite , he 's very polite , he can be very polite to you . |