Example sentences of "and i listen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 2 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 3 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 4 | I lay in my room like a dead body and I listened to Elizabeth thinking about her dinner party . |
| 5 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 6 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 7 | On my first visit , I sat and said nothing : all my conversation was stilled to triviality and I listened to Belle telling stories . |
| 8 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 9 | But that 's what I use , CNN , I read the New York Times and I listen to the BBC , even in America , for a different perspective . |