Example sentences of "[adv] she heard [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she heard a strange noise , and there in front of her was a boy . |
| 2 | Suddenly she heard the familiar sound of the key being turned in the front door Alison came in . |
| 3 | When the black vehicle tried to move away she heard a horrible clanking sound and saw the bumper come free . |
| 4 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 5 | A few minutes later she heard the rich throb of a car engine in the drive below . |
| 6 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 7 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 8 | Just then she heard a familiar voice . |
| 9 | The silence held for a while and then she heard a low laugh that seemed to trace itself right down her spine too . |
| 10 | Then she heard a mysterious gurgling noise . |
| 11 | Then she heard a high , effusive whisper . |
| 12 | Then she heard an outer door close , and guessed that refreshment had been delivered . |
| 13 | Then she heard an enormous crash , a bomb exploding somewhere very near , a great roar of shattering glass and , after a moment 's stillness , screaming , ear-splitting , horrible screaming , from just over her head . |
| 14 | There was a moment 's silence , and then she heard an unfamiliar voice . |
| 15 | And then she heard the low whistle — once , twice , and a third time ; and while she lay frozen by terror into indecision , a yet more dreadful possibility occurred : what if Tristram were caught , and were led to believe that she had betrayed him ? |
| 16 | Then she heard the distinctive sounds of a loquacious Siamese cat , and a human voice raised in exasperation . |
| 17 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 18 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |