Example sentences of "listen to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retreat consisted , and still does , of anything from five to thirty days of spiritual exercises , usually in an atmosphere of silence and contemplation apart from listening to the preacher when there is one , but with additional features of both vocal and silent prayer . |
| 2 | Perhaps ‘ salvation by grace , experienced in listening to the preaching or reading of the biblical word , and in affirming the literal interpretation of that word ’ might be a better if clumsier phrase . |
| 3 | That night I lay awake , listening to the sound of children crying and thinking hard about the position that I myself was now in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |
| 6 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 7 | The empire too may be long gone , but you 'd never think it listening to the cricket commentators . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 13 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 14 | ( 'You have to attain a high degree of musical stupidity in order to find watching the beat , or the conductor 's inane face for that matter , easier for the purpose of knowing how or when to play than simply listening to the music , ’ he argued . ) |
| 15 | By entering ‘ the race … to show that the Government is wrong ’ Ukepra is clutching at straws and defying the accepted principle that marketing any product is all about listening to the demands of the consumer and satisfying those demands . |
| 16 | We crouched down in the trench and drank our tea , listening to the crump , crump as two mortar shells exploded close by . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then he turned his head to one side as if he , too , was listening to the Maltesers rolling past the front row , under the bed on which he and Andrea had cavorted , towards the French windows on the far side of his bedroom , and out into the garden . |
| 19 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 20 | I lie in my sleeping bag , listening to the shuffling of reindeer hooves , and thinking this over . |
| 21 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 22 | He came to the Kingsbrook bridge and paused for a moment on the parapet , listening to the soft suck and chatter of the stream . |
| 23 | For him the high spot of the day was listening to the very earnest young man delivering an extremely good set of orders . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 26 | Does n't get on with stepfather , McLeish noted mentally , listening to the colour in her voice . |
| 27 | In the morning in Jacksonville , I shaved and dressed , listening to the television without looking at the pictures . |
| 28 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 29 | Jinny smiled politely at her , listening to the ringing tone . |
| 30 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |