Example sentences of "listen to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just stayed there listening to people moving around upstairs . |
| 2 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 3 | Also , listening to people 's conversations can be very enlightening and suggestive of ideas . |
| 4 | Roith spent his first nine months within the government listening to people . |
| 5 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 6 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 7 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 8 | It is a paradox of modern-day business that , with time-saving devices such as desk-top computers , satellite telecommunications , electronic mail and supersonic aircraft , many managers find even less time to devote to essential profit-making activities — such as thinking and listening to people . |
| 9 | We absorb ( i.e. learn ) a great deal of French vocabulary , grammar and syntax by listening to people speaking French without making a conscious effort to learn the language . |
| 10 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 11 | Hours you spend on that phone , listening to people pour out their problems ! ’ |
| 12 | More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . |
| 13 | With output in the construction industry falling to its lowest level for six years and the industry predicting a further 50,000 job losses this year , when will the Secretary of State stop his policy paralysis and start listening to people in industry who know what they are talking about ? |
| 14 | A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options . |
| 15 | Stop listening to people , such as Mr Kinnock , who has now written out to C L Ps telling them that they should be changing the way that the unions are linked to this Labour Party , not at all . |
| 16 | That 's one of the occupational hazards of listening to people talking football — Docherty talking through his arse for a few quid . |
| 17 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
| 18 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 19 | In the previous round of European parliamentary proposals there were ten European boundary enquiries and five of these overturned provisional recommendations as a result of listening to people at public inquiry . |
| 20 | ‘ We ended up spending so much time listening to people that it ended up diluting what we wanted to do , ’ Adamson concludes . |
| 21 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 22 | It helps if you can establish such a relationship and listen to people with concern . |
| 23 | Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith , it strikes me as less surprising thin they suggest . |
| 24 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 25 | Elephants are very intelligent , they tell me , and elephants do n't hide behind chairs or under beds and listen to people 's conversations . ’ |
| 26 | mm , you never listen to people and then you think you can just pick it up by deduction |
| 27 | Too few filmmakers have recognized that the argument for a British cinema could only begin when they showed a readiness to listen to people 's dreams and nightmares , and play them back to audiences in exciting narratives that would enable those watching to know themselves a little better , and to feel a widening sense of possibility in the way they shaped their lives . |
| 28 | It 's er and I have to listen to people . |
| 29 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 30 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |