Example sentences of "[adv] to listen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 2 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 3 | He paused in his writing only to listen to a rather attractive Finnish poetess reading a sequence about her marital problems . |
| 4 | One of the great bonuses of The Third Age is time — time to spare for other people , even if it is only to listen to what they have to say . |
| 5 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 6 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend continue not only to listen to the representations , but to act on them in every way possible ? |
| 8 | Anderson , confused by the situation , attempts repeatedly to assert himself , but is allowed only to listen to the match on the radio . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd never keep Jupe awake long enough to listen to the arguments . |
| 10 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 11 | I do n't know which is worse — her drivel or you being daft enough to listen to it ! |
| 12 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 13 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 14 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 15 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 16 | IT IS music just to listen to pianist John O'Conor talk in his Liffey-soused Dublin lilt . |
| 17 | Our examination of the Biblical material needs also to listen to the teaching of Apostle Paul . |
| 18 | Parables are simple stories , easy both to listen to and understand . |
| 19 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 20 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 21 | He has called them here to listen to his news . |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't intend to be here to listen to it . ’ |
| 23 | That somewhat chilling prediction was made in the presence of the hon. Member for Cornwall , North ( Sir G. Neale ) , who was here to listen to the opening speeches but who is not here now . |
| 24 | I am here to listen to all my colleagues and to all hon. Members and anyone else who wishes to make representations to me . |
| 25 | On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement . |
| 26 | During his conversations with Marcus , when they did take place , Ludens had the impression that Marcus was pursuing a consecutive line of thought , sections of which were randomly surfacing for Ludens 's benefit , or even for Marcus 's benefit , at moments when Marcus felt it might clarify his ideas to verbalise them aloud , and even to listen to a response . |
| 27 | ‘ It moves for me by contrasts , ’ he said , and now he began to take an interest in , even to listen to , what he himself was saying . |
| 28 | The cassette will continue to play , whether he is there to listen to it or not . |
| 29 | Erm so as it 's not an open debate to produce a decision , very often , and it will be less so I imagine , erm they do n't need to be there to listen to this debate . |
| 30 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |