1.   After a while there came the distant sound of rushing water.

2.   Chewing, waiting to get his hit, he seems to be listening for some distant sound.

3.   He could already hear distant sounds.

4.   Now Agnes and Oats sat on either side of it, listening to the distant sounds of Hodgesaargh feeding the birds.

5.   She heard the distant sound of the tractor starting up, which meant that Fernand had no intention of waiting for her.

6.   Sometimes too, I could hear the distant sounds of other women, coughing or calling out to one another, laughing.

7.   Sometimes you can hear the distant sound of traffic from the main road.

8.   The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.

9.   We were interrupted by the distant sound of the gate intercom.

10.   David Swan woke painfully to a brilliant dawn and the distant sound of vacuum cleaners.