Example sentences of "listened to the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bjaaland listened to the winter wind outside . |
| 2 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 3 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After the lunch , they all sat on the verandah and looked at the grass and listened to the wood pigeons and warblers . |
| 6 | He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up . |
| 7 | Lee listened to the patio door closing quietly , and felt ashamed , ignoble , as if she were embarrassed about having had an epileptic fit or as if she had broken wind in the middle of a fairy-tale . |
| 8 | Seventy per cent of the audience panel of a BBC survey in 1939 listened to the Boat Race followed by 51 per cent for boxing , 50 per cent for soccer , and 50 per cent for cricket ; soccer and boxing were predictably the favourites of the working-class respondents but the 34 per cent overall interest in Wimbledon was a clear indication that hitherto bourgeois sports were broadening their appeal . |
| 9 | As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house . |
| 10 | Rachaela lay in her green-and-blue bed and listened to the house shifting , and the breath of the sea . |
| 11 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 12 | I was only half awake when I listened to the World Service . |
| 13 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 14 | The inaugural meeting overflowed the Central Hall , Westminster , where 5,000 people listened to the historian A. J. P. Taylor listing the effects of an H-Bomb explosion . |
| 15 | Jackknifed over the whisky bottle , Barry listened to the radio commentary in closing-time light . |