Example sentences of "[vb infin] heard a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 2 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 8 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 15 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 16 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 17 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |