1.   Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb.

2.   No sooner had Derek Bevan blown the final whistle at Twickenham, than faint noises could be heard from over the horizon.

3.   We heard a faint noise coming from the room.

4.   We heard a faint noise.

5.   Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered, as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers.

6.   And when he heard a faint scratching noise behind the bathroom door, he assumed that a dog or cat was asking to be let out.

7.   It may have been just a faint noise drifting through a dismal, misty New England night, but that sound was the ringing of the opening school bell.

8.   Maybe it was the faint noise of the raindrops pounding the hangarlike roof of the USAir Arena on Friday night.

9.   Others listened for faint noises, voices, scratching or banging, in the hope of finding more survivors.

10.   The search began after aircraft in the area picked up faint noises on their emergency frequencies on three occasions.