Example sentences of "hear him [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 2 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 3 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 4 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 5 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 6 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |
| 7 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 8 | He thought he heard him chuckle from the shadows once , but his eyes could not penetrate the gloom . |
| 9 | He got up , flung the strange , savage robe around his shoulders again and went into the other room where she heard him shouting through the door " Is that little matter sorted out yet , at the Dog and Gun ? " |
| 10 | Then we heard him shouting from the depths : Is anybody there ? he was telling us he had broken both legs , and there was a lot of blood . |
| 11 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 12 | His shoes squeaked on the hard floor and Julia heard him walk towards the door . |
| 13 | ‘ Sure … ’ they heard him murmuring into the mouthpiece , between the noise of gunshot and the scream of tyres . |
| 14 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 15 | Patrick climbed out first and them helped Jane down ; Collins was the last man out , and Patrick heard him murmur to the driver , " Around the block the long way , only stop if you see us on the street . " |
| 16 | Edward followed ; she heard him skid on the floor , in whose black and shining depths were reflected the chandeliers above their heads . |
| 17 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |
| 18 | Edging between the two tall , upright stones , Tug heard him mutter at the Woman , ‘ Lock up the car and bring the Kalashnikov . |
| 19 | She heard him running down the stairs , problems at his heels . |
| 20 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 21 | His door opened and closed , quietly , but not secretively , and I heard him going down the stairs . |
| 22 | He went out without another word , and she heard him going down the stairs . |
| 23 | Little Billy heard him talking to the robin in a kind of curious twitter . |
| 24 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 25 | She heard him turn on the tap and drink a glass of water noisily . |
| 26 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 27 | When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed . |
| 28 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
| 29 | How the hell can they say only when he fucking hear him coming down the stairs ! |
| 30 | I could hear him jumping in the hall . |