Example sentences of "and you could hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Baghdad , Bernard Shaw , John Holliman and Peter Arnett described the death-dazzled night , and you could hear in their voices the vibrato of fear . |
| 2 | It was maybe because in their early days The Smiths were so simple sound-wise , the guitar was so thin and the sound was fairly quiet and you could hear these intricate little lines which were really pretty to the ear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 5 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 6 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you listened very carefully and if you looked very closely , you could see it and you could hear it and you could feel it . |
| 9 | Then , suddenly , everything was quiet again and you could hear the dust settling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even through the double glazing the glass was beginning to melt and you could hear this horrible panting sound . |
| 12 | When he was n't teaching , Malik was usually on the phone , and you could hear him through the wall . |
| 13 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 14 | She was screaming and you could hear her crying . |