Example sentences of "[verb] or hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 2 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 3 | Often he spent the night underneath his desk , hoping to see or hear any trace of it . |
| 4 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 5 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 6 | It 's not always easy , and it can be even harder in the case of older people who may not be able to see or hear well . |
| 7 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 8 | If you have influence over me , I may try to predict what signals you would like to see or hear , and consciously send them to you . |
| 9 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 10 | Then she would n't have to see or hear … |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't bear to see or hear women cry . |
| 12 | Does he agree that it is possible , if arts societies stage productions that the population want to see or hear , for those societies to be self-financing — as the society in Billericay is ? |
| 13 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 14 | So because many elderly people ca n't see or hear very well , they may be missing information which the rest of us see and take in without even thinking about it . |
| 15 | We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well . |
| 16 | You could not see or hear very far through it , but it would be quite a supportive , cocooning medium — foams can be very viscous . |
| 17 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you see or hear anything at all which might be regarded as suspicious or unusual — either then , or earlier in the evening ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did you see or hear anything later in the night ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's surprising how little even these country kids know about owls , although they must see or hear them every day . |
| 21 | Wait patiently and long enough at the start and the end of the day at different villus and you will see or hear most of Sri Lanka 's wildlife . |
| 22 | On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening . |
| 23 | She is talking about an enemy which you can not see or hear or smell . ’ |
| 24 | You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development . |
| 25 | And then , though in varying degrees , you can see or hear these specific kinds of work : relatively easily if they are specific forms of your own culture ; with more difficulty , and sometimes with absolute difficulty , if they are forms of some other , especially remote culture , or if your own culture is deeply divided and these forms come from an area that is strange to you . |
| 26 | Cohesion is a surface relation ; it connects together the actual words and expressions that we can see or hear ( cf. coherence , Chapter 7 ) . |
| 27 | But still the men did n't see or hear her . |
| 28 | Do you know that creepy feeling when you 're sure someone 's there but you ca n't see or hear anything ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Clare did n't see or hear me coming . |
| 30 | Somewhere up there I can not see or hear , |