Example sentences of "i have listen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd listened to Gareth tell him in detail on Sunday evening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 5 | ‘ How much longer do I have to listen to all of this crap ? |
| 6 | Do I have to listen to him mum ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had to listen to Radio Suffolk this morning and Debenham was a school mentioned to be closed today . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | By that time , I had listened to so many commercials , and studied their language in such detail , that I was tired of the whole subject . |
| 17 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've listened to the party political broadcast , ’ said Wexford . |
| 19 | Now I 've seen club owners in the movies , and I 've listened to their talk in person , but I 've never heard anyone using a word like muppet before . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've listened to you and your sanctimonious blabberings for the last time ! |
| 21 | I 've listened to a lot of interest to the people who 've been commenting about the future and the schools and the young children coming in . |
| 22 | I 've sat here patiently , and I 've lifti I 've listened to all the briefly 's and I think I 'm due a brief word to the assembly |
| 23 | The point I would like to put over is , I 've listened to one or two erm , radio programmes , and television programmes about this and I personally would like to have more evidence of what actually happens to the animals . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've listened to the tape recording and I 've perused the report . |
| 25 | Now , we have to get over to people this changed idea , and it has n't been got over because nobody that I 've listened to , or talked to , knows , in fact people say , what does the parish council do ? |
| 26 | okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now . |
| 27 | I 've listened to all the lectures that were about my plan . |
| 28 | I know I 've listened to hours of school . |
| 29 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 30 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |