Example sentences of "he listen to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Meehan 's appeal Nicky asked the presiding judge , Lord Clyde , if he could call Mr Ross to the witness box to have him listen to the recording . |
| 2 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 3 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 4 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 5 | and let him listen to the heart |
| 6 | He listened to the throb of the ship 's generators , a noise he associated with every ship he had travelled on . |
| 7 | He listened to the door downstairs close and slipped out of bed to look through the window . |
| 8 | His boyish features seemed almost bright , almost happy , as he listened to the Coroner questioning a police Inspector , who had been in charge of the Metropolitan Police 's part in the operation . |
| 9 | He hesitated for a moment as to what to do ; then looking again at the woman at the table , who was now smiling at him , he sat down in the chair , and for the next ten minutes he listened to the banter between the two of them . |
| 10 | He listened to the pleadings . |
| 11 | He listened to the thud of her feet on the stairs and the satisfying slam of the front door as it crashed behind her . |
| 12 | As Joshua sat , unconsciously shepherding the crumbs on his plate into a neat pile as if they were pieces of scrap in his store , he listened to the Rabbi talking to Jacob , heard the warmth in his voice , and felt a pang of envy at the bond that existed between his father and his son . |
| 13 | Oliver 's tears fell fast as he listened to the story of his father . |
| 14 | He was thinking while he listened to the logical thought processes of Leon Gusev . |
| 15 | A glass of iced cognac and soda dangled from his right hand and he listened to the jazz with an expression of seraphic contentment on his face . |
| 16 | He listened to the hisses and pops of static as the number connected and the phone rang again . |
| 17 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 18 | Half-consciously he listened to the murmur of Dolly and Gertrude talking in the auditorium , their voices carrying through the curtain which screened him . |
| 19 | He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up . |
| 20 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 21 | He listened to the traffic , felt the warm air slip by , moved his portfolio from one hand to the other , and thought of her . |
| 22 | He listened to the friar describe the motive and the identity of the murderers . |
| 23 | Christopher did n't reply , sensibly enough , thought Alan , and he listened to the clink of china and cutlery as the two women cleared the coffee cups and last few lunch things . |
| 24 | As he listened to the answers he learned more than he could have done in other ways about the existing culture of the former two separate schools . |
| 25 | He bent his head to the ground , trying to catch his breath as he listened to the warning bells of the horse-drawn fire engines , heading to the inferno . |
| 26 | He was all muscle and sinew , with no spare flesh as far as she could tell , the aura of strength very marked even in repose as he lay relaxed , his hands clasped behind his head , his face shuttered and dreaming as he listened to the music . |
| 27 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 28 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 29 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 30 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |