Example sentences of "he [verb] hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do n't let him have heard what we were saying earlier , she begged inwardly . |
| 2 | Robinson had learnt all that he wanted to know and more than he cared to hear . |
| 3 | At an OEEC Council meeting , Harold Macmillan , then Chancellor of the Exchequer , is reputed to have said that he had become aware of some archaeological excavations at Messina about which he expected to hear no more . |
| 4 | It was not the moment she would have chosen , but the determined glint in Silas 's eye told her he expected to hear the truth . |
| 5 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 6 | The verderers slept as he passed and he failed to hear the sound of their horses stirring uneasily in the thicket . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 8 | Apparently he got to hear about a particularly tricky deal prepared by three Japanese whaling companies to come with quota proposals , and he knew that one of the companies was taking a very different view from the other two , and he hoped that there could be a divide-and-rule situation set up . |
| 9 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 10 | His voice was marked by flat northern vowels and was so soft Dexter felt the muscles in his cheeks tense as he strained to hear . |
| 11 | He tells them of a tale he has heard , of how a monster called Grendel has killed many of Earl Hrothgar 's people . |
| 12 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 13 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 14 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 15 | Why , he asks God , has he never sent him a friend who would have been able to make sense of his inner experience and translate the ‘ music ’ he has heard in his soul into intelligible sound ? |
| 16 | He has heard about the ‘ Hello curse ’ , where loving couples tell in the glossy how good life is together … and immediately head for a break-up . |
| 17 | He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness . |
| 18 | He has heard his counsel , under the procedure now generally adopted , making submissions to the judge after his conviction about the recommendation the judge will make as to the tariff period . |
| 19 | He has heard something … ’ |
| 20 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 21 | I watch Crilly after he has heard the news from his sister , Megan . |
| 22 | The Leader of the House is on the Government Front Bench , and I am sure that he has heard the hon. Gentleman 's point . |
| 23 | He has heard it all before , and he has his own opinion . |
| 24 | 1.7 If the judge is undecided on the other evidence after he has heard both sides then the conviction is conclusive , but the judge is not precluded from making a finding of contributory negligence against the plaintiff or accepting ( in an appropriate case ) a defence of volenti non fit injuria ( Murphy v Culhane [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 533 ) . |
| 25 | The 85-year-old , who will be at tonight 's concert , says he has heard the music a number of times . |
| 26 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 27 | And I 'm going to make a suggestion to my Noble friend Lord he has heard all the erm views which are critical of the Government 's approach and I would not have thought that he had much hope in the division lobby as quite frankly . |
| 28 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 29 | He bent to hear what she was saying , because she had a rather soft voice . |
| 30 | Is this what he wants to hear on Radio 3 ? |