Example sentences of "be [adv] listening to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , can I ask Wallace Mercer , if he 's still listening to the programme , if he was considered the environment in his plans for the football stadium ? |
| 2 | I am delighted that Professor Carsberg is here listening to the debate . |
| 3 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |
| 4 | And , while holding a conversation with her client , she was also listening to the voice of her broker , relaying prices from the floor of the Metal Exchange in Plantation House through the loudspeaker on the wall above her desk . |
| 5 | In the past week she had been arrested , charged with smuggling heroin , released on bail , learned how to sail a forty-foot yacht , and was now listening to the man she had fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with talk about his colleague 's connection with the most vicious and widespread criminal organisation in the world . |
| 6 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |