He had not consciously heard them for weeks.
The newsbox beside them continued to hunt; three times it spoke up, each time Libby touched the rejection button without consciously hearing it.
A low noise, which he'd heard for so long he no longer consciously heard it, had changed its tone.
The time might come, of course, when he would not consciously hear the message.
Fine music to run by, even though for hours at a time he didn't consciously hear it.
But you will never consciously hear what it says.
Surfaces are unavoidable too, except in so far as you quickly learn to eliminate them from what you consciously hear.
Lockley did not see the plane nor consciously hear it.
He threw himself flat on the ground almost before he consciously heard the shells whistling in from out of the east.
Funny; he hadn't consciously heard their steady hum in a long time.