Example sentences of "could not hear [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not hear me above the din of the crowd . |
| 2 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 3 | Gillroy could hear both Darwin and Koepang , but they could not hear him . |
| 4 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |
| 5 | He raised his voice even though the old man continued to indicate that he could not hear him . |
| 6 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 7 | One , he says , was the World Cup final in 1966 when , in the last nail biting minutes of extra time , he had to leave the Wembley Press box and find another phone because the noise of the crowd was so deafening that his copytaker back in Belfast could not hear him . |
| 8 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 9 | Since I was behind the public address speakers , I could not hear it . |
| 10 | I was using an ear-plug and the lads could not hear it — I had gone to church alone . |
| 11 | Anna could not hear it . |
| 12 | The old-age pensioner could not hear it , but for everyone else it continued to throb with the promise of its message , drifting over Dynmouth on the breeze that blew gently from the sea . |
| 13 | Though he could n't hear them , Trent knew that they were setting up a race . |
| 14 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 15 | But the animals inside the house could n't hear them . |
| 16 | I could n't hear them . |
| 17 | He could n't hear her , but as that was what she always said , he assumed she 'd said it again . |
| 18 | ’ Mr Sargent had said something then and she lowered her voice so that Emmie could n't hear her any more . |
| 19 | In fact she was walking up and down and I could see her mouth opening and closing as she meowed , though I could n't hear her . |
| 20 | Of course he could n't hear her . |
| 21 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 22 | He could n't hear me , either . |
| 23 | I was up there , stood on the landing where he could n't hear me and could n't see me I was |
| 24 | There was no reply and Clarissa said they could n't hear him , so why did n't he leave it ? ’ |
| 25 | And checked hastily to see that Marion could n't hear him . |
| 26 | She smiled and gestured that she could n't hear him . |
| 27 | She could n't hear him any longer . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 29 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know how you know it 's stopped if you could n't hear it , ’ said Lydia , ‘ but you 're quite right . |