Example sentences of "i was [adv] listen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was busily listening to these subliminal hisses of disapproval when Alison Kraemer appeared at my elbow . |
| 2 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 3 | Thank god I was n't listening to Radio 5 , else I 'd probably not have any fingernails left with worry that they would n't put even one past Swindon . |
| 4 | I did n't have much choice , I was n't listening to it anyway so then I got quite to like it then . |
| 5 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 6 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 7 | While I was still listening to " The Surrey with the Fringe on Top " and " Some Enchanted Evening " , rock and roll burst about my ears . |
| 8 | I was disinterestedly listening to the Coca Cola Cup replay between Blackburn and Shrewsbury last night on Radio 5 . |