| Jayne chose the light and fluffy lemon lush after overhearing that a diner is just about as fluffy and syrupy. |
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| Because you don't really want complete strangers overhearing the most intimate details of your personal hygiene routine, do you? |
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| I do remember overhearing them one other time while they were saddling up their horses. |
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| The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse. |
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| We ended our snack with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table. |
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| The effect is quite lovely, our passenger tossing and turning in sleep and dimly overhearing the torch song from his neighbour's headphones. |
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| We cannot reasonably expect the police to refrain from observing or overhearing persons they consider to be suspicious. |
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| This allows you to talk to people in your direct environment, without the conversation partner overhearing it. |
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| After overhearing a discussion by a local contractor, a neighbour, Ms. Sophie Kantas decides to investigate. |
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| Thus she had gained the opportunity of overhearing her parents, a proceeding which at one time subjected her to months of sleeplessness. |
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| He had discovered the Church of the Nazarene by overhearing a conversation on the street. |
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| Children learn about their environment from overhearing people talking.3 Deaf children need to be spoken to directly if they are to learn. |
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| Other players, overhearing the interview, would chime in with their own stories. |
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| Stewards may be overhearing conversations that they should not be privy to. |
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| The tree surgeon spoke in whispers, as if to keep the nearby trees from overhearing. |
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| He has even taken to loitering around the House of Commons in the hope of overhearing a stray rumour. |
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| Its trick is to persuade the reader that he is overhearing the author think, and to join in. |
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| As a child, you recall overhearing that your mother was told another pregnancy would kill her. |
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| Others will feel that they are overhearing your most unguarded thoughts. |
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| At that moment a duck paddled near, and overhearing this, she laughed. |
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| The aging priest, who was slightly hard of hearing, would have to ask us to repeat all our wrongdoings so loudly that we feared our classmates, who were just outside waiting their turn, would be overhearing it all. |
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| Some taxi drivers may be used to collect specific individuals from the airport or hotel for the specific purpose of overhearing or recording a sensitive conversation. |
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| Subjects should be admitted from the waiting area into the test area one at a time to prevent those subjects who are waiting from overhearing spoken comments or remarks that could impact the validity of their examinations. |
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| The assistant guide, overhearing this, queried the vessel's operator about his location and was able to clarify with whom the vessel had been in contact. |
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| The second risk is that an unscrupulous colleague, overhearing an original idea from another researcher,may hastily incorporate it into his or her own patent application, without divulging where the idea originated from. |
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| In addition, the 'Conference Call Locking' facility ensures that once all participants are engaged in a call, the room can be 'locked' to prevent any other parties entering or overhearing the discussion. |
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| Even when material information is obtained by accident, such as by overhearing a conversation, you are prohibited by law from trading because the information is material and non-public. |
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| Okto was overhearing this conversation, and could not help joining in. |
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| Overhearing her telling the others about her job as a lap dancer, the housemates weren't impressed when she went into distasteful detail about sexual preferences. |
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| Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room. |
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