Example sentences of "i [vb past] listen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal . |
| 2 | I stopped listening to Mudhoney after ‘ This Gift ’ , the follow-up to their still superior ‘ Superfuzz Bigmuff ’ which failed to deliver anything as immediately impressive . |
| 3 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 4 | I stopped listening to Mavis and sat staring at Toby . |
| 5 | I stopped listening to Jake Rosso 's records , and took his pictures off my bedroom wall . |
| 6 | I liked and respected people , but here I learnt to listen to and rely on others . |
| 7 | I 'd listened to Gareth tell him in detail on Sunday evening . |
| 8 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 9 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 11 | At first I could not believe you thought this was the house and later … well , I enjoyed listening to you going on about it . |
| 12 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
| 13 | Galloping godfathers — he was n't listening to me so I started listening to myself . |
| 14 | Once I got into him , then I started listening to Johnny Winter , Brian May , Ritchie Blackmore … |
| 15 | ‘ When I started to listen to all the stuff , I thought I 'd be sick of everything . |
| 16 | and , I meant to listen to it but I forgot |
| 17 | I managed to listen to commentary on Capital Gold . |
| 18 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 19 | I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally , and I was always glad when he sat down . |
| 20 | I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case . |
| 21 | I also listened to Mr I did n't understand what he was saying but I did listen to him er the bit that I did er catch was his denial that erm the revenue budget for Moat and Highfields was half a million well he 's quite correct because I 've got the figures here . |
| 22 | She was quite pleasant to talk to , I liked listening to her . |
| 23 | And often , after a day 's rehearsal , I had to listen to Shadwell telling the dinner party how well his production of The Jungle Book was going , how ‘ expressionistic ’ it was . |
| 24 | The place I got , I used to hate going to bed — it was so damp , I had to listen to it dripping off the curtains . |
| 25 | At very long meetings , punctuated by the arrival of quite excellent sandwiches — for me the most unhealthy of all foodstuffs — I had to listen to the outpourings of the leading fanatics in the medical profession ; to the timorous intervention of the moderates ; and happily to the constant , wise and soothing interventions of Derek Damerell , the chief executive of BUPA , to whom the country owes a debt that has never received proper recognition . |
| 26 | I had to listen to the story of the execution again — at least , the oldest woman launched out into a welter of words among which I heard ‘ mayor ’ and ‘ Germans ’ ; and the children raised their arms like guns . |
| 27 | I had to listen to Radio Suffolk this morning and Debenham was a school mentioned to be closed today . |
| 28 | He said , whereas my mum over there in the corner , he said , if she had a bash I had to listen to bloody Frank Sinatra , would n't I ? |
| 29 | They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had listened to them spellbound , just as I once , as a small girl , hid behind my father 's sofa and heard Samuel Coleridge recite his Ancient Mariner 's Rime . |