Example sentences of "[prep] listen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After listening to Mr Lightman 's allegations , Lord Donaldson said that if Mr Oliver 's affidavit was to be believed then The Mail on Sunday had acted in ‘ a wholly hypocritical way . ’ |
| 2 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 3 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 4 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 5 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 6 | My secondary education began in Cardiff in September 1939 , a few days after listening to Neville Chamberlain 's broadcast . |
| 7 | tend to change their minds after listening to other people 's points of view |
| 8 | But after listening to Lord Ritchie Calder speaking about Pugwash , the committee of scientists to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons , and Steven Rose condemning the use of CS gas in Northern Ireland , I could never again retreat into the comforting vision of the scientist as an impartial observer . |
| 9 | After listening to this it 's obvious there 's still hope . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , that 's it , ’ said Brown five minutes later , after listening to both McCrea and Somerville on the line from Kensington . |
| 11 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 12 | It is only morons like you who , after listening to some crazed lunatic spouting his thoughts , would follow such thoughts . |
| 13 | The Cuban intellectuals were saying that after listening to Valtr Komarek for 14 hours he had lost his socialist ideals and went to commit suicide in the Bolivian jungle . |
| 14 | After listening to Tindle talking excitedly about The Raft , Minton began work on The Survivors ( National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa ) , in which he wisely makes no direct allusion to Géricault 's masterpiece , the experience of which had caused Delacroix to run through the streets like a madman , as any attempt to retranslate this powerfully emotive image would have resulted in failure . |
| 15 | After listening to around 100 hours of the spontaneous speech of 48 inner-city speakers ( see 4.3.1 ) the investigators received the impression that occurrences of examples such as ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alternating with their standard counterparts were extremely frequent . |
| 16 | She surprised all of them , not least her husband , when , after listening to Alice 's persuasions and Will 's stubborn refusal to give way , she said , ‘ You been master of your house ever since the day I married you , Will Pritchett . |
| 17 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 18 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 19 | I hope , after listening to this set of examples , I have not replaced one stereotype with another . |
| 20 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 21 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 22 | After listening to an eighteenth-century description of their village and its green , one class made a model of the village green as it was about 1790 . |
| 23 | Sitting in Manchester , the judge said after listening to two hours of legal argument from counsel for Blandford , his wife and the Official Solicitor , that he now had no power to rectify his error made on May 17 when he ordered the Marquess to be jailed if he failed to pay the money in two weeks . |
| 24 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 25 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 26 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 27 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 28 | after listening to these tapes back . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's this fascinating gestation period between listening to something and waiting for it to come out in your playing . |
| 30 | Recently , in another context , you described Cedric Price , and others , as ‘ suckers ’ for listening to the likes of Mr Heinz and me . |