Example sentences of "[conj] heard the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though momentarily disoriented and deafened by the blast , Grant still felt the floor shake under him and heard the ominous rumble which told him what he dreaded to know . |
| 2 | He stood in the darkness and heard the other man move to the left and a door open and saw the rectangle of lighter grey . |
| 3 | I took a deep breath — and heard the tiny tide of protest from the enemies in my lungs . |
| 4 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 5 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 6 | The watchful , who included Lydia , watched the sky behind the hills lurid with lightning and heard the distant cursing of thunder . |
| 7 | She dialled the number carefully and heard the distant ringing tone . |
| 8 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 9 | From within the deep dark hood , Nuadu caught the sudden glint of white bone and heard the guttural laugh . |
| 10 | He saw the weird underworld life for himself , and heard the horrible drip of water leaking through . |
| 11 | Lambert glimpsed a flickering of muzzle-flames from a hundred machine-guns , and heard the deft tug of bullets speckling his machine , with sometimes a spang ! as a round struck metal . |
| 12 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |