Example sentences of "he had been listening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 2 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 3 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 4 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 5 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 6 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 7 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 8 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |