Example sentences of "have been listening to " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He 's not your servant , miss , ’ said Zillah , who had been listening to the conversation . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . |
| 33 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 34 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 35 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 38 | Ali had been listening to the discussion . |
| 39 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 40 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 41 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 42 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 43 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 44 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 45 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |
| 46 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 47 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 48 | But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to . |
| 49 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 50 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 51 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 52 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 53 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 54 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 55 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 56 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 57 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |
| 58 | Of the four issues I have been listening to , which could hardly be more different from one another in approach , none is without distinction , none without its own appeal . |
| 59 | I have been listening to ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ for three days straight , packing for a bunk to the Islamic world and every moment of departure in my entire life has come tumbling out of my memory , often erupting in tears . |
| 60 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |