Examples of overhear

• Several pharmacy users commented on the knowledge and training of the pharmacists, although most also remarked about the difficulties of being overheard in the queue.

• What matters in architects' writings - as in their design work - are those moments when we sense that we are overhearing a conversation.

• Actual readers become like eavesdroppers who overhear a conversation that is not really meant for their hopelessly-biased ears.

• The plot was overheard by the daughter, who, looking forward to the marriage, became sad and alarmed.

• Are there sometimes difficulties because you overhear something?

• Results show that learners who did not overhear initial learner utterances were significantly less successful at distinguishing recasts from repetitions.

• Each interview was conducted privately between the par ticipant and a researcher, with no one else present or able to overhear the conversation.

• The bilinguals had silently overheard and understood the derogatory jokes by the medical staff.