Example sentences of "[vb past] be listening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 2 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 3 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 4 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 5 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 6 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 7 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 9 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 10 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 11 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 12 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 13 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 14 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 16 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 17 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 18 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 19 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 20 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 21 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 22 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 25 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 26 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 27 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 28 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 29 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 30 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |