"Next year, they'll kick up past their ears if I have anything to do with it."

His question was little more than a caress of air past her ear.

He heard the pipe whistle past his ear, and had an idea.

I did a lot of shouting, and she just sat there letting it go past her ears.

He pulled the gun away for a second and fired a shot past my right ear into the floor of the tunnel.

He hadn't moved as the dummy had sailed past his ear.

At the same moment a shot was fired from behind us, and a bullet sang past our ears.

The Shadow heard the cleaving of air past his ear.

He'd heard the bullet whistle past his ear, so he knew the shot had been fired from behind him.

I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention, remembering the thing that had sung past my ear.