Example sentences of "be listening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 2 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 3 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 6 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 7 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 8 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 9 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 10 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 11 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 12 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 13 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |
| 14 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 15 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 17 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |
| 18 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 19 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 20 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 21 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 22 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 24 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 25 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 26 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 27 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 29 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 30 | But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to . |