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Example sentences of "we could hear " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The cinema was immediately adjacent to our house , so that every night we could hear the film and imagine what was on the screen .
2	From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’
3	We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it .
4	We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away .
5	We could hear the women beg : ‘ Ca n't you please move away ? ’
6	We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire .
7	We could hear things in the score which usually we are obliged to seek out by eyes reading the score .
8	Some things at that time were no doubt very good ; but I suspect if we could hear some of them now we simply would not tolerate them .
9	He sped away back to the car and we could hear his urgent voice , though not the words .
10	It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus .
11	As we parted , we could hear our man force-feeding his companions their scotch eggs , hurrying them along like a rowing cox .
12	By this time our pursuer had joined the merry band on the peak , and we could hear his companions gasping not far behind him .
13	We could hear the groan of their engines for so long that we thought more vehicles were approaching .
14	We could hear the aircraft revving up at their dispersal points and then one by one taking off , labouring to get their weight off the ground before they ran out of runway .
15	We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was .
16	We could hear the engines revving up as one by one the aircraft started their nerve-wracking blind journey down the runway , and miraculously each managed a safe take-off without dislodging their bombs .
17	Now we could hear the noise .
18	From where we sat we could hear their occasional bursts of laughter and the dim drone of their voices , but the words themselves were lost to us .
19	The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees .
20	As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery .
21	We could hear that dreaded phrase
22	One resident said : ‘ We could hear the music and we live more than a mile away .
23	Misty cloud hung suspended not far above our heads while all we could hear was the trickle of water .
24	His head was turned towards the door , where we could hear footsteps approaching .
25	We could hear the guttural growling of still more coming from underground burrows .
26	We could hear the constant drone of the record producer in the heather and the woods , and quite often when the others were chipping or putting .
27	The match got under way and , in our earpieces back in London , we could hear the director talking to the cameramen out in Ballarat .
28	We could smell the salty tang of sea air less than a mile away , and we could hear the mewing of gulls .
29	Now we could hear nightingales again , singing against each other in the woodland scrub .
30	On this day in early June , the foliage was so lush , and the birds at this crucial young-rearing stage so wary that , although we could hear birds all around us , not a glimpse of a feather would we see — unless we followed the Warden 's advice , and skulked .