Example sentences of "[be] listening to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORMA Major has been listening to Jarvis 's Frayn , the latest cassette recording from actor Martin Jarvis , on her car cassette . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 4 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The cash crisis facing developing countries means that lending organisations , such as the World Bank , are listening to Reddy . |
| 7 | You see , each of us has to make sure that we are listening to God 's voice and not our own fantasies . |
| 8 | You 're listening to ABC FM : |
| 9 | Yo you 're not having a look at Beethoven music , you 're listening to Beethoven music . |
| 10 | You too should be listening to Negativland . |
| 11 | ‘ On this most beautiful radio we will now be listening to Mr Mark Tully Sahib of BBC every day of year . ’ |
| 12 | On Friday evening , while they were listening to Gerhardt sing In Wunderschönen Monat Mai , Fru Gertlinger burst in uncharacteristically . |
| 13 | In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance . |
| 14 | But now motor racing , and earlier this afternoon , if you were listening to Saturday Special with John Briggs , you may have heard Eddy Jordan talking about his career in motor racing , leading up to his entry into Formula One this season with the Eddy Jordan Racing Team . |
| 15 | For instance , in Helen Cresswell 's The Night Watchmen , Henry is listening to Caleb 's description of the mysterious train : |
| 16 | He was listening to Dinah Asshe , who was addressing him with laughter in her voice ; the voice that had charmed half London . |
| 17 | Within hours of his arrival , Coleridge was listening to Wordsworth recite a substantial new poem called ‘ The Ruined Cottage ’ ; after tea Coleridge replied with two and a half acts of Osorio , and in the morning followed the whole of The Borderers , Wordsworth 's north country tragedy . |
| 18 | I was listening to Mr , yes , thank you |
| 19 | That 's , I was , I was , I was listen I was listening to Neil Kinnock |
| 20 | Even at that age , he was listening to Charlie Mingus and people like that . |
| 21 | A few moments later , balloon of armagnac in hand , I was listening to Dennis recount with great self-satisfaction how he 'd come by the priceless spirit , when our attention was drawn by the sound of running water from the kitchen . |
| 22 | He was listening to Mahler and the emotions the composer always aroused in him were affecting his game of computer chess , making it turbulent , unconsidered . |