Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] listen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd bothered to listen to me , ’ Peter went on , ‘ instead of simply wading in with all those slanderous accusations about her , I 'd have told you earlier . ’ |
| 2 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 3 | Where sounds of humanity are muffled by the absorbent tranquillity , where vegetative abundance struggles in mysterious thickets and leaf-thatched tunnels , and moss-veiled statues stand transfixed listening for the echoing revelry of a party that ended centuries ago . |
| 4 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 5 | I was n't really sure what I was doing going to listen to a programme of classical music at the uncustomary time of 10 a.m . |
| 6 | The last thing she 'd have chosen to listen to this morning was Miss Poraway 's conversation . |
| 7 | ENOCH POWELL : I do enjoy listening to other people talk . |
| 8 | I do enjoy listening to guest speakers and maybe special ‘ thank you ’ prizes for those who have contributed to the University in special ways would be an idea , but keep the degrees for the deserved students please ? ? ? ? |
| 9 | The executives did begin to listen to each other more effectively . |
| 10 | It is vital , however , that agencies involved in alternatives to care continue to listen to those who have been through the system . |
| 11 | Too upset for sleep , I am forced to lie listening to the sounds . |
| 12 | Even the thought of lunch at Osborne House again tomorrow did n't seem too bad an idea , even if it did mean listening to Mama telling him how she heard nightingales in the garden at Pierremont House and how she walked all the way to Pegwell when she was twelve and ate shrimp paste at the Bellevue Tavern . |
| 13 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 14 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 15 | This drew a little laughter from one or two shoppers who had gathered to listen to the exchange between the fishmonger and this well dressed and clearly foreign lady . |
| 16 | Alice had stopped to listen to them because this man , this kind-faced fair one , was quite a good performer . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've come to listen to a very distinguished visitor , Berel Karlinsky , a famous man we 've all heard of . |
| 18 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 19 | I 've got to listen through the tape yeah . |
| 20 | Now you 've got to listen to me . |
| 21 | Clive James summed it up when he said , ‘ It 's one thing to ask the question but you 've got to listen to the answer so that your next question follows on . |
| 22 | You 've got to listen to me . |
| 23 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 24 | We have to come to terms with the fact that people 's experience of God differs enormously and the way they talk about God differs enormously , and in order for us to understand even what we mean we 've got to listen to them . |
| 25 | We 've got listening at |
| 26 | If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers . |
| 27 | For the last two days I 've refused to listen to him and I still think he 's out of his senses . |
| 28 | the whole of humanity , who had refused to listen to him , or to recognise that he was sent from God to bring all people back to himself . |
| 29 | He had feared as much — had known the match was ill-conceived — but once more he had refused to listen to the voice within . |
| 30 | He felt fully justified in acting as he did , asserting that true blame attached to those who had refused to listen to his grievances . |