Example sentences of "she listened to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She listened to Bernard 's account of his faith with increasing mystification . |
| 2 | She listened to cicadas and breathed the pervasive liquorice which grew locally and was processed in a factory on the Nîmes road . |
| 3 | She listened to footsteps in the hall , a muttered conversation . |
| 4 | With Urquhart upstairs , Blanche felt the satisfaction of post-coital revenge , as she listened to Roger 's crackly voice , pleading for a meeting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rose , as she listened to Léonie 's questions , took off her black cardigan , rolled up her black sleeves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She held an ebony flute with silver keys on her lap and she caressed it absently as she listened to Francie . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Sitting on a stone wall she listened to tourists who sprawled on grass where they were asked not to encroach . |