Example sentences of "not hear him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 2 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of our gear has been lost , and all your horses , ’ Finnan went on as if he had not heard him . |
| 4 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 5 | Izzie repeated , as if she had not heard him , ‘ He 'll be back , you 'll see . |
| 6 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 7 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 8 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 9 | Ballater appeared not to hear him . |
| 10 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 11 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 12 | Frau Nordern did not hear him or at least seemed not to . |
| 13 | Marie , lost in her own thoughts , did not hear him . |
| 14 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Cathy Henderson better not hear him on like that , ’ Natasha said . |
| 16 | ‘ Goodbye , fella , ’ he muttered , but Isobel fortunately did not hear him . |
| 17 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 18 | Come back ! ’ yelled Master , but the dog did not hear him and ran on . |
| 19 | Gillroy could hear both Darwin and Koepang , but they could not hear him . |
| 20 | But Creggan did not hear him . |
| 21 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |
| 22 | Lucifer did not hear him . |
| 23 | The exclamation was soft , so the Myrcan would not hear him . |
| 24 | He raised his voice even though the old man continued to indicate that he could not hear him . |
| 25 | She did not hear him and vigorously continued splashing . |
| 26 | Louis , genuinely , did not hear him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I have n't heard him cry here . ’ |
| 30 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |