Example sentences of "not hear [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 2 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 3 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 4 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 5 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 6 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 7 | ‘ Most of our gear has been lost , and all your horses , ’ Finnan went on as if he had not heard him . |
| 8 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 9 | Izzie repeated , as if she had not heard him , ‘ He 'll be back , you 'll see . |
| 10 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 11 | We have not heard it all before , unless we have read , as few of us have , Harriet Zinnes 's compendium Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts , which all these essayists draw on very heavily . |
| 12 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 13 | Have you not heard it ? |
| 14 | Alexei was shouting something , and he quickened his pace so that if it was abuse or a challenge , he would be able to pretend that he had not heard it . |
| 15 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 16 | If the Minister has not heard it before , this is another commitment for him — 4 million people would gain . |
| 17 | I had not heard it used by anybody else until it was uttered by Jim Taggart , well known to TV viewers as Glaswegian . |
| 18 | Have you not heard it yet ? |
| 19 | I have not heard it . |
| 20 | not to hear them splintering |
| 21 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 22 | Ralph-appeared not to hear her . |
| 23 | Her mother pretended not to hear her . |
| 24 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 25 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 26 | Ballater appeared not to hear him . |
| 27 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 28 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 29 | You can read it and not hear it and it can seem banal . |
| 30 | Mm , no they wanted to be in , but you not hear it no I think pussy cat is gon na be a no no about us you 'll have to . |