Example sentences of "you could hear [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems to be a ring of light round everything — It is still and sunny — so still you could hear a spider spin . |
| 2 | You could hear a pebble drop now . |
| 3 | just breathing ; a dry electric wind you could hear a mile off . |
| 4 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 5 | The Calthorpe Arms at that time on a Monday evening was so busy and bustling that you could hear a beermat drop . |
| 6 | The other players carried on getting changed and opening lockers and stuff , but you could hear a pin drop . |
| 7 | You could hear the rain dropping off the trees . |
| 8 | If you listened closely to certain words , it was like putting your ear to a conch shell : you could hear the sound of the sea breaking on the shore . |
| 9 | You could hear the gentle strumming of two guitars from the house . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've asked it nary a word till we got here , so as you could hear the story as well . |
| 11 | ‘ You could hear the two men talking to each other , saying ‘ Give her another one … do n't give it to her too quickly … now help her along ’ , then awful smothering sounds . ’ |
| 12 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 13 | It was one up and one down , terraced on three sides , so you could hear the people poking their fires on three sides . |
| 14 | Mrs Glews : Well first of all you heard the sirens go off and then you all went down to the shelter and you could hear the planes coming over . |
| 15 | For hours , you could hear the dolphins rearing up |
| 16 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 17 | You could hear the chug of lawnmowers ; hoses snaked out to cars parked at the roadside ; bonfire smoke snagged in the branches of fruit trees . |
| 18 | He held his coffee cup as a woman does , with both palms curled around it , for the warmth ; and you could hear the china tapping its morse against his teeth . |
| 19 | And when you sat , trembling forgetfully , on one of the benches in the frosted gardens , with the grass like white hair standing on end , you felt you could hear the ghosts of the children 's cries and shouts — for here they must surely have played in their packs . |
| 20 | Then , suddenly , everything was quiet again and you could hear the dust settling . |
| 21 | And then and of course as far as I remember we , you could hear the noises of the engines of course , terrible , not , not like planes today . |
| 22 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 23 | You could hear the jingling , rattling sound coming from the equipment yard next door . |
| 24 | When the name Roy Boulting was mentioned on stage tonight you could hear the warmth that came over and I felt very proud and privileged to be a part of it . |
| 25 | No that 's Dorothy , is n't it , the one that goes we were strolling along on moonlight bay , so you could hear the clouds singing you stole my heart moonlight bay . |
| 26 | you could hear the music of this psychopathic composer . |
| 27 | You could hear the Yorkshire coming through . |