Example sentences of "and listening [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also spoke of lying awake and listening for the flying bombs , and noting the difference in volume between one explosion and another , and then , on hearing one more definite in sound , concluding that , as in the old artillery box-barrage , they had at last ‘ got the range ’ . |
| 2 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 3 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 4 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 5 | My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance . |
| 6 | After a long while , watching the attack and listening to the screeching wood , Tallis had had enough . |
| 7 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 8 | It 's extraordinary to be sitting in the middle and listening to the different sides of the argument . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The final report of the working party considering the content of music courses in the National Curriculum strongly affirms the centrality of performing , composing and listening in the new syllabus . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to see how role play and drama can be used to achieve many of the Attainment Targets for Speaking and Listening in the English National Curriculum documents . |