Example sentences of "and listening [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 2 | They pace together through the forest in silence , scanning the canopy intently , sometimes stopping and listening for the calls of colobus . |
| 3 | She stood for several seconds , fingering her camera , staring up at the trees , glancing down the path and listening for the sound of trampling in the undergrowth that would herald Fernand 's return to his task . |
| 4 | He also spoke of lying awake and listening for the flying bombs , and noting the difference in volume between one explosion and another , and then , on hearing one more definite in sound , concluding that , as in the old artillery box-barrage , they had at last ‘ got the range ’ . |
| 5 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |
| 6 | Good supervision can prevent pilots developing careless habits , and students can learn by watching and listening to the instructor 's comments about good and bad launches . |
| 7 | Actors in travelling companies used to set up their stage in a town or village , mix among the inhabitants , watching and listening to the local news , gossip and scandal . |
| 8 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 9 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 10 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 11 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 12 | Bohunt 's team will enjoy an evening of entertainment which will include tasting food and listening to the music of many countries . |
| 13 | It was an awe-inspiring sight to stand in the dusk outside the office , watching and listening to the boys going out on what we all knew would be a hazardous and dangerous mission , from which at least some of them would not return . |
| 14 | Indulging in passive leisure activities such as reading and listening to the radio cost nothing and can seem a luxury after a lifetime of sticking to a working schedule . |
| 15 | After crossing the dock channel by way of the lock gates catwalk , they paused for a while watching and listening to the bedlam of noise from the riveting guns as the shipyard men worked on a small coastal tanker in the dry dock . |
| 16 | The ferrymaster was absent across the Forth so Corbett told his escort to rest ; they opened their provisions , ate and drank and then lay on the sand-strewn grass , enjoying the warm noon sun and listening to the birds overhead and the constant chatter of the bees and crickets . |
| 17 | Every night both he and he and others packed into the tigh dubh , huddled around peat fires , supping the broth and listening to the wind skirting the stone walls and bellowing down stone wells . |
| 18 | Larry adds that his optimum rig would be two 4x10s , and listening to the tens perform under an extreme load does tend to qualify his argument . |
| 19 | Worrying about , concentrating on and listening to the head noises will make them seem even more prominent and dominating . |
| 20 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 21 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 22 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 23 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 24 | After he and a pal raised the alarm , they stood helplessly watching helicopters and lifeboats scour the area and listening to the cries gradually getting weaker in the darkness . |
| 25 | BY THE time it actually became based in Reading in 1971 , the National Jazz , Blues & Rock Festival — as it would soon be known — had begun to epitomise all that was ominous about sitting on an ex-council rubbish tip amidst capricious weather and listening to the sound of the beat boom go bum . |
| 26 | It 's extraordinary to be sitting in the middle and listening to the different sides of the argument . |
| 27 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 28 | With its formal rose garden , large lawns and a wooded area with a pigeon house and herbaceous borders , it is altogether an ideal place for just sitting and listening to the birdsong . |
| 29 | Craig stared into the fire , it had been over a week since he had escaped from the prison , lying in the back of the van , smelling the fresh mouthwatering tang of bread and listening to the clip clop of the horses ’ hooves . |
| 30 | He enjoys creeping past the back gardens of his neighbours , spotting the gleaming milk pails in one and listening to the notes of a bass viol coming from another . |