Example sentences of "[vb mod] hear [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 2 | All Darren , 23 , could hear were whistles , bleeps , buzzes and pings . |
| 3 | Artemis sat absolutely still in her bath , trying to hear what Rosie and the other maids were saying , but all she could hear were their silly giggles . |
| 4 | All she could hear were soft snores . |
| 5 | The only sounds she could hear were the deep voices of Ocean . |
| 6 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 7 | All they could hear was one of the spy planes . |
| 8 | She got hold of the railings and all I could hear was screams . |
| 9 | I could get all sorts of reasonable tones , but live or recorded I was n't hearing the sound of an AC30 ; all I could hear was the Power Tool 's solid state amp and the massive amount of EQ I was adding and taking away . |
| 10 | In fact , all you could hear was the repetitive pounding of rubber on tarmac and a lot of heavy breathing . |
| 11 | All over the course for those seven hours , all you could hear was ‘ Aaaaw … goo' shot . |
| 12 | All I could hear was my heart pounding . |
| 13 | Misty cloud hung suspended not far above our heads while all we could hear was the trickle of water . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to play something really quiet because my hearing at that point was so hyper that everything I could hear was loud . |
| 15 | The sound of his parents ' calls were muffled and then grew distant and all he could hear was the rough footfall of the man on the rocks and scree and the sound of his breathing … |
| 16 | All he could hear was the sound of the sea and his own breath , dangerously loud . |
| 17 | Harris struggled to separate the words , but all he could hear was Piper 's anguished keening . |
| 18 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 19 | All she could hear was the sound of his footsteps on the fresh snow and the swish and bump of her bags as they scraped the alley walls . |
| 20 | All he could hear was a whisper . |
| 21 | All Robert could hear was the wind , shouldering vainly against the windows of the headmaster 's study . |
| 22 | All you could hear was her tut-tutting . ’ |
| 23 | All he could hear was his heart beating . |
| 24 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 25 | All she could hear was her own ragged breathing and the thud of her heart . |
| 26 | I wo , well she was awake in the middle of the night , I do n't know what time it was but all I could hear was mummy , mummy , mummy ! |
| 27 | find out , he says , alright then , so he took her up the room , and all you could hear was |
| 28 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 29 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 30 | Before the ballet started , an announcement was made in front of the curtains that what the audience would hear was the composer 's full intention , and not the orchestra playing incorrectly . |