Example sentences of "[not/n't] listening " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'm do n't want to be believing what they do write in they newspapers ma'am ’ , exclaimed the sergeant , but his visitor was not listening . |
| 2 | Harriet 's voice drops but she 's not listening . |
| 3 | Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not listening to me , Boyo , ’ he exclaimed , a look of annoyance on his face . |
| 5 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 6 | But Karl was not listening . |
| 7 | ‘ I told myself ‘ Do n't rush , do n't rush ’ , ’ he said , but evidently he was not listening . |
| 8 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 9 | All the way home , not listening though half-replying to Mrs Marchebanks 's chatter , Dorothea worried about it , and in the night she awoke , to find her eyes again thick with tears . |
| 10 | You were not listening and now I have forgotten . ’ |
| 11 | He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ? |
| 12 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 13 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |
| 14 | Both partners may have tried to talk at a more intimate level but found that the other one was not listening . |
| 15 | Her people are giving her a car for Christmas — Susan , you 're not listening ! ’ |
| 16 | Edward was not listening . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll find the bastard , ’ he said , not listening . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not listening to — ‘ |
| 19 | These people are not listening : they are waiting to speak . |
| 20 | He 's not listening , he 's just getting impatient while he waits . |
| 21 | Is it because we have not been speaking out when we should have at injustice , not proclaiming the truth , not listening to our watchmen , not praying , not doing , not sending and not CARING ? |
| 22 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 23 | We may construct defences for our sensibility by being deliberately offensive , diminishing others and not listening to them . |
| 24 | Not listening , and talking too much about irrelevancies . |
| 25 | They may do this through looking disinterested or scornful , blatantly not listening , interrupting , asking difficult questions and going on the attack . |
| 26 | If they said John was a prophet and thereby received his authority from God , they would be criticised for not listening to him . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not listening , you know , ’ said Gurder . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not listening to any more of this , ’ and she closed the window and climbed back into bed . |
| 29 | Memory and retention skills can also be tested on each other , and you can be surprised by the misunderstandings which can result from not listening properly , or from being given inadequate or misleading information . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not listening , ’ said Joe , at which point a middle-aged woman came in , found her way through the maze and reached the counter . |