Example sentences of "[vb infin] heard [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 2 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 3 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 4 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 5 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 6 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 7 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 8 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 9 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 10 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back . |
| 12 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 13 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman had participated in our debates in Committee , he would have heard a wide range of differing views and opinions expressed by the various parties in Northern Ireland — and , to some extent , by people within the same party . |
| 15 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 16 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 17 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 18 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 19 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 20 | Few former colleagues had much idea of what anthropology was and many seemed never to even have heard the word . |
| 21 | The civilian operator who took the SOS call may have heard the voice of her killer . |
| 22 | You should have heard the crowd . |
| 23 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 24 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 25 | The wind whipped the words away and they were lost in the gale but someone must have heard the banging . |
| 26 | From his next communication I should have heard the warning note : |
| 27 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 28 | You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ . |
| 29 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 30 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |