He needed to hear the bell or she would be left standing in the street, perhaps for hours.

I heard from a distance the bell of a street car.

I heard the bell and thought: can it be he's on time?

Players cannot see the ball: they can hear the bell.

Suddenly, she wanted to ask him, Do you hear bells?

We'll find a place out of the wet where we can hear the bell.

But I hear the bell - that is your patient.

It was well past midnight when he heard the bell.

Round two, she thought, and I didn't even hear the bell.

In her preoccupied state she had not heard the bell.