Example sentences of "have hear a " in BNC.

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1 You could 've heard a critic smile !
2 No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth .
3 Potter has heard a lot of complex , incompetent lies in his life .
4 At the trial of two eleven year old boys accused of murdering the toddler James Bolger the court has heard a statement given to the police by James 's mother Denise .
5 ‘ I 'd heard a programme about an Indian craftsman who made wooden elephants .
6 Lumberjack had started barking and then , just as abruptly , stopped again , and in the silence he 'd heard a tree come down .
7 ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’
8 A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window …
9 I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that .
10 They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories .
11 Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame .
12 He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps .
13 And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy
14 You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one .
15 He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more .
16 They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making .
17 There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence .
18 Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’
19 Well you could have heard a pin drop .
20 I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs .
21 The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter .
22 Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back .
23 Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer .
24 In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor .
25 If the hon. Gentleman had participated in our debates in Committee , he would have heard a wide range of differing views and opinions expressed by the various parties in Northern Ireland — and , to some extent , by people within the same party .
26 Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious .
27 I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’
28 The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake .
29 You could have heard a pin drop .
30 ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road .
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