Example sentences of "she listen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 2 | Summoned to Lord Beaverbrook 's presence on her departure for the US she listened to him develop a one-sided Scottish conversation which included the listing of many ancestors and their places of burial . |
| 3 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 4 | He scrutinised her face anxiously as she listened to her mother , and when her eyes turned languidly towards him , he smiled and stroked her hand more earnestly . |
| 5 | ‘ They were n't wrong , those girls , ’ thought Marie as she listened to Bella clashing the crockery in the kitchen , her walking-frame squeaking over the lino as she pushed it about . |
| 6 | She listened to him but she said : ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 7 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 8 | Unshockable , she listened to the most abominable confessions with equanimity , and cooked a memorable boeuf a la mode . |
| 9 | While a fervid interest in sex overpowered other girls , she listened to their confidences unmoved . |
| 10 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 11 | She listened to the way he spoke and began imitating his careful diction , and her natural grace was an asset when she walked at his side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 14 | She listened to a debate on the subject on a New York radio station . |
| 15 | She listened to the engines : All was well . |
| 16 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 17 | Nellie looked very serious as she listened to her battered husband reliving his terrifying experience . |
| 18 | As she listened to Amsterdam she became more sure by the minute that Timothy was n't quite the same as he 'd been when he had left the house that morning . |
| 19 | ‘ She listened to me and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , darling , but I was n't going to do it for you . |
| 20 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 21 | She listened to it with an expert ear . |
| 22 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 23 | She listened to cicadas and breathed the pervasive liquorice which grew locally and was processed in a factory on the Nîmes road . |
| 24 | As she listened to the faint smack of the sea on the rocks below , she thought again , regretfully , of Angus . |
| 25 | She listened to the rhythm of his breathing , unsure if he were awake or asleep . |
| 26 | She held an ebony flute with silver keys on her lap and she caressed it absently as she listened to Francie . |
| 27 | As she listened to the sweet voices of the children coming from the church , and thought of the pain she had experienced in her short life , tears came to her eyes . |
| 28 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 29 | She listened to him intently — and not at all ; I am not cured , she thought , indeed things are worse if anything . |
| 30 | With Urquhart upstairs , Blanche felt the satisfaction of post-coital revenge , as she listened to Roger 's crackly voice , pleading for a meeting . |