Example sentences of "do not [verb] hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Maggie heard what she did not want to hear ; she heard Rachel , who was always so controlled , so strong , so clear , she heard Rachel whimpering , begging , |
| 2 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 3 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 4 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 5 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 6 | Roland did not want to hear another long speech from Blackadder about Beatrice Nest 's long-delayed edition of Ellen Ash . |
| 7 | The implication of this note is that most readers did not want to hear that anything was wrong , and that Wordsworth 's doubts about the growth of industry show original thinking on his part . |
| 8 | ‘ It was all so quick — the judges just said they did not want to hear any more arguments , convictions quashed and then got up and walked out ! |
| 9 | Mostly he feared the answer he did not want to hear . |
| 10 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 11 | And he did not want to hear of what was impossible . |
| 12 | And when their voices dropped and silenced , I put my fingers in my ears , for I did not want to hear that , either . |
| 13 | At first , I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear . |
| 14 | All I said simply slid off the shell into which he retreated when confronted by words he did not want to hear . |
| 15 | She sensed she did not want to hear anything else . |
| 16 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 17 | Which he did not want to hear , she realised ; which meant nothing to him . |
| 18 | They did not want to hear another missing child public-address call again . |
| 19 | In this case there was no such evidence with the result that the court did not decline to hear the case . |
| 20 | He said some other things , too , that I did not like to hear . |
| 21 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 22 | And I did not like to hear Rupert call me a play-actor . |
| 23 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 24 | He did not seem to hear her . |
| 25 | For a moment the shopman did not seem to hear . |
| 26 | He did not seem to hear , so I left him bending over his leg and filing away at his iron chain like a madman . |
| 27 | Tutilo did not seem to hear her . |
| 28 | She did not seem to hear me . |
| 29 | She did not seem to hear him . |
| 30 | She did not seem to hear me . |