Example sentences of "listen to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing under the vaulted fan roof of that incredible building , listening to the pure soprano of the leading choir boy singing , ‘ Once in Royal David 's city ’ as the choir came up the aisle , it was difficult to restrain our tears . |
| 2 | For a while they were quiet , listening to the ancient music . |
| 3 | If anybody has given up his right to vote , in the misguided intention of not paying his taxes , he will get no sympathy from the public — and more fool he , for listening to the Labour Members of Parliament who urged people not to pay their community charge . |
| 4 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 5 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , it it 's certainly very interesting this morning , er listening to the various points that have been put forward by er the new administration . |
| 6 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 7 | He kicked the wreckage aside , and ran into the empty engine room , searching , as the Russian looked anxiously back up the stairway , listening to the tremendous blows echoing through the ship . |
| 8 | Listening to the modulated hum , the gaseous cough , the rubber shudder . |
| 9 | Myles had sat on the edge of the chair with his hands clasped between his knees , listening to the legal measured tones , telling himself , I 'm not going to get it , I 'm not going to get it . |
| 10 | Start listening to the subtle thoughts and feelings , the slight shifts in energy , which bubble up from your inner self . |
| 11 | ‘ When Shabba and his posse were listening to the final tune they were nodding sagely . |
| 12 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 13 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 14 | Listening to the personal stories of the half-dozen Easterhouse people gathered in the hall — stories of drug addiction , crime , alcoholism , unemployment , poverty — it is hard to ignore his appeal . |
| 15 | We knew from listening to the Allied radio that groups of partigiani , partisans , had secretly started to organize them selves , and young men of military age were advised to go into hiding to avoid being sent to Germany or conscripted . |
| 16 | Listening to the new recording was ‘ like being in the living presence of the orchestra ’ wrote Howard Taubman , chief music critic of The New York Times . |
| 17 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 18 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 19 | He left half his breakfast and wandered aimlessly about for an hour or two , listening to the other residents telling one another how awful it was . |
| 20 | Why did n't he know most things by intuition — and by listening to the other animals talking ? |
| 21 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 22 | By which time you 're not listening to the other things they 're saying . |
| 23 | but it , if everybody has the opportunities listening to the good news of the kingdom , in the , in the old world well then people have a chance , that means a , everybody 's having a chance does n't it ? |
| 24 | Charles seemed to be listening to the brilliant quintet banging out its jazz . |
| 25 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 26 | She watched him , listening to the one-sided conversation . |
| 27 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 28 | And he wondered whether it was in such a disorientating limbo of time , listening to the ever-restless sea , that the previous owners of Martyr 's Cottage had chosen their text . |
| 29 | She flipped the cylinders from the revolvers and checked the firing actions , listening to the metallic click of the hammers on empty chambers . |
| 30 | They walked hand in hand through the warm summer dusk , their arms entwined , her head upon his shoulder , listening to the drowsy lullaby of ships ' hooters from the river , and smelling the scent of soft tar upon the roadway . |