Example sentences of "listened to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other girls at Group included ‘ Jolly Molly ’ — plump and good-natured ; Harriet , who was trying to improve her mind and always listened to the afternoon plays on BBC radio ( relayed to each hut over the Tannoy system ) ; Veronique , who was stage-mad and had a friend in the current London production of Lady Windermere 's Fan , and dough-faced Olive ( more about her a bit further on ) . |
| 2 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 3 | But as I listened to the stories of these prisoners it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge . |
| 4 | I braced myself against the sides of the trench and listened to the explosions and the debris landing on the roof . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They sat around the fire , letting the horses graze freely with Rimir and Darmid to look after them , and listened to the birds that sang in the reeds thronging the riverbank . |
| 7 | I listened to the birds singing and watched a curl of grey-blue smoke rising into the sky from the station 's brick chimney , and winter and the war seemed unbelievable . |
| 8 | In silence , Buzz listened to the nurse 's non-stop starling twitter . |
| 9 | He listened to the pleadings . |
| 10 | We listened to the soundtrack through the back wall of the cinema , separated from each other by plates filmed in olive oil with pools of tomato juice , and half finished wine . |
| 11 | and listened to the noise of rubber soles |
| 12 | I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole . |
| 13 | They listened to the Beatles on Miranda 's new stereo ; the magical mystery of ‘ Strawberry Fields Forever ’ reminded her of her grandmother , so lonely , isolated , and unreachable in the prison of her own head . |
| 14 | She listened to the Beatles on the radio ; it could only be to annoy Ken . |
| 15 | Bjaaland listened to the winter wind outside . |
| 16 | she noticed every moment with Lucy , pictured her , listened to the memory of her voice . |
| 17 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 18 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 19 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 20 | He listened to the door downstairs close and slipped out of bed to look through the window . |
| 21 | Peace immediately sent the news ratings down by one-third , but the pulling power of radio in its heyday is shown in the fact that 45 per cent of the people listened to the half-hour general election speeches in the 1945 campaign — feats of concentration ( however imperfect ) inconceivable in 1990 . |
| 22 | I listened to the Minister 's words with interest . |
| 23 | Culley reeled the tape back a little and listened to the question again . |
| 24 | She listened to the breathing which , though stertorous was regular and , she judged , healthy . |
| 25 | And listened to the tumult down below , |
| 26 | And we listened to the breath- |
| 27 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 28 | Charlie listened to the chaplain intone the words , ‘ Ashes to ashes , dust to dust ’ , before the last post was played yet again . |
| 29 | Having ordered a seafood salad , she sipped a glass of dry white wine and listened to the orchestra playing Neapolitan love-songs while the sun set and the lanterns came on , glowing a weird purple in the warm blue dusk . |
| 30 | Pascoe felt the cold beer fill his mouth and listened to the landlord 's radio distantly above playing ‘ White Christmas ’ . |