Example sentences of "listened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 2 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 3 | I have also seen written applications for the CID ridiculed by those inside , and listened to the expressions of disbelief that these naïve applicants were ‘ so short of shillings that they did n't realise that admission was by invitation only ’ . |
| 4 | Her sister listened to The Moody Blues , Jay listened to Bob Dylan , Joan Baez , The Kinks : she despised the early , clean-cut Beatles and mods . |
| 5 | Her sister listened to The Moody Blues , Jay listened to Bob Dylan , Joan Baez , The Kinks : she despised the early , clean-cut Beatles and mods . |
| 6 | she noticed every moment with Lucy , pictured her , listened to the memory of her voice . |
| 7 | He did not have a headache although he listened to his old albums at full volume . |
| 8 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 9 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 10 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 11 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 12 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 13 | Take Pound the poet ( though in strictly limited dosages , if you listened to Leavis or Winters ) , and ignore Pound the critic — the message was loud and clear , and it was attended to . |
| 14 | Summoned to Lord Beaverbrook 's presence on her departure for the US she listened to him develop a one-sided Scottish conversation which included the listing of many ancestors and their places of burial . |
| 15 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 16 | I braced myself against the sides of the trench and listened to the explosions and the debris landing on the roof . |
| 17 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 18 | We got into the trench and listened to the swish as the salvoes passed overhead . |
| 19 | Whether they listened to Radio 4 news regularly ( asked in the Pre-Campaign Wave ) . |
| 20 | Second , we have divided voters into those who regularly viewed or listened to any highbrow news programmes such as BBC-TV 's Newsnight , ITV 's Channel 4 News , or the BBC 's Radio 4 news , and those who did not . |
| 21 | With the exception of Radio Luxembourg 's popular entertainment programmes , few British people ever listened to foreign broadcasts . |
| 22 | These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands . |
| 23 | Next day , in Schwerin , after drenching rain , he listened to a band , German soldiers ignoring him , and restocked with apples , standing on the cycle 's crossbar to reach them . |
| 24 | I listened to the record . |
| 25 | We listened to the soundtrack through the back wall of the cinema , separated from each other by plates filmed in olive oil with pools of tomato juice , and half finished wine . |
| 26 | She rang the doorbell , listened to the silence within and felt a moment of panic . |
| 27 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 28 | The doctor , still chatting away , put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Phoebe 's chest and heart , then had her sit up and tapped her back . |
| 29 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 30 | The educated amateur , whose organizational influence remained so strong , rarely listened to journalists . |