Example sentences of "we listen to " in BNC.

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1 As we listen to Kevin Kline run through every possible cliché about the English , the people who live upstairs begin to fight .
2 In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well .
3 Elderly people can be greatly helped if we listen to what they want to say , and receive their information as important .
4 As we listen to music , we allow it to flow over us , and we enter into the atmosphere it conjures up .
5 He reads my novel and I look at his SHE column , and we listen to each other 's comments .
6 We listen to :
7 We listen to them in the car .
8 So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise .
9 When we listen to gentle and beautiful sounds , the vibrations are actually massaging our tissues and cells which , in turn , improve blood circulation , metabolism and hormone action .
10 But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems .
11 All the music we listen to falls into two general rhythmic categories .
12 He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’
13 Instead of the inspired word of priests , we listen to the advice of party leaders , masters of war .
14 The radio can not demand that we listen to it : even if we leave it switched on , this does not mean we are listening .
15 The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to .
16 We listen to the tone of their voice .
17 As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude .
18 As we listen to the Geiger counters we shall hear a succession of clicks .
19 On Sunday nights at home we listen to Dan Dare on Radio Luxemburg and that week 's episode is replayed and embellished , with Ann and her brother , who also read it in the Eagle .
20 We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us .
21 We listen to soft scrapings
22 Cos it 's important when we 've got you that we we have a look at you , we listen to your chest , we check your blood pressure and we make sure there 's no side effect .
23 If we listen to music which continues for too long without change the mind tends to go to sleep , and at best listening becomes an effort , so that in spite of our concentration other thoughts tend to slip in .
24 But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure .
25 We listen to the radio .
26 The SSAFA is in close touch with the Department at all times and we listen to what it has to say about problems associated with housing and everything else .
27 When we listen to music , for example , our eardrums vibrate with the rhythm of changing air pressure .
28 In bed we listen to the cinders
29 I do n't think so , really it 's just the opposite problem of what we 've got over here , being submissive now we all know what being being sub submissive yes we let people walk all over us we do n't say yeah we we listen to what everybody else says and therefore the opposite is you 're gon na get aggressive to get what we want .
30 I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs .
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