Example sentences of "[prep] listen to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 2 | Lots of listening to music and singing from an early age always helps , ’ she says . |
| 3 | We have published reviews of a fair number of headphones in recent years and there is ample evidence that this uniquely personal and involving method of listening to music remains very popular . |
| 4 | On the other hand , you may be looking for video material which gives your students the experience of listening to speech against background noise , coming from speakers who are making no concessions to their listeners . |
| 5 | Theatre in the world at large is unimaginable without an audience : I would n't dream of listening to radio drama with anyone else in the room . |
| 6 | I did a lot of listening to focus groups in the middle of September . |
| 7 | The Video book not only has optional teletext but there is a double soundtrack to give the viewer a choice of listening to commentary or bird song , or both . |
| 8 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 9 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 10 | Gulliver ( 1979 ) , investigating infant teachers ' assumptions in listening to reading , argued that the ploys that teachers used in helping children read aloud were patterned by their underlying perceptions of reading . |
| 11 | Some interest in listening to music on record , or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed . |
| 12 | Now they know that in listening to information given by television , on television , er on radio , they can buy newspapers produced in Great Britain . |
| 13 | Joyce 's drawling nasal delivery ( the result of a broken nose in his schooldays ) attracted widespread interest in Britain , where no restrictions were placed on listening to enemy broadcasts , and he was quickly dubbed ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ , a kind of malign Bertie Wooster ( see Sir P. G. Wodehouse , q.v. ) , whose opinions were a subject only for entertainment . |
| 14 | To anybody who 's used to listening to dialect the East and the West are very different . |
| 15 | The approach to listening to music has changed , with less emphasis upon analysis and the acquisition of facts about composers ' lives . |
| 16 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
| 17 | Alternatively , you can switch off by listening to music , or think about something peaceful . |