Example sentences of "had [be] listening to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 3 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 4 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 5 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |