Example sentences of "listening [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sherlock Holmes was listening with his eyes closed , but now he opened them and looked at Helen Stoner . |
| 2 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 3 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 4 | A poor substitute for personal hope and endeavour , he had always thought , listening to his friends besotted by the achievements of little Willy , but perhaps it was a human necessity no one could quite escape from . |
| 5 | In the end , Gabriel 's head was shaken vacant , and he sat gaping ahead of him into Izzie 's scowling face and listening to his teeth clattering together with every rut in the road . |
| 6 | He thought he might as well look over his skiing equipment , instead of listening to his parents snapping at each other . |
| 7 | With a slash of the knife he remembers when he was twelve , lying face down on the landing , watching and listening to his parents arguing about him and his future . |