Example sentences of "listen very [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I want you to listen very carefully to what I am about to say , ’ said the Patrician amiably , ‘ otherwise you will die . |
| 2 | To write this poem , Lawrence evidently had to listen very hard to the Oxford voice . |
| 3 | I must plead guilty to not listening very intently to everything Dana says . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm grateful to the honourable member and listening very carefully to this argument . |
| 5 | Gently but firmly explain your point of view and listen very carefully to what is said in return . |
| 6 | If you listen very carefully to the background music , you might hear a clue to who has committed the crime , that 's if you know Morse code . |
| 7 | No new offer was made but each side listened very attentively to the other . |
| 8 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
| 9 | Full of anticipation they were fitted out with very chic driving overalls , registered for the day ( or did they sign their lives away ? ) and listened very intently to the briefing . |
| 10 | I 've listened very carefully to Councillor and I have n't learnt a thing about the answer to various questions which were raised at E I D and and I ask it again , why do you really reject the Scheme ? |
| 11 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 12 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 13 | Some of you may have listened very attentively to the , to a programme that put o , was put out a week ago I think , with Betty er , in Welsh and er some of you therefore , will know something my background . |
| 14 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |