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listening
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Simple sentences
I cheered myself up by listening to music.
I like listening to good music.
He is listening to the radio.
She was listening to music.
I often spend my free time listening to music.
Tom loves listening to classical music.
Are you listening to me?
Tom is listening to music.
I got mad at Tom for not listening to me.
Sami wasn't listening to me.
I don't think he was listening.
Sorry, I wasn't listening.
Tom enjoys listening to Heavy Metal.
I'm sick of listening to your complaints.
Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.
I'm sick of listening to her complaints.
While listening to the radio, I fell asleep.
I'm listening to the radio.
None were listening to the speaker.
Susan enjoys listening to music.
George, if you are not listening to the radio, turn it off.
I always enjoy listening to classical music when I have some free time.
The students sat still, listening to the lecture.
I fell asleep while listening to the radio.
Everyone was listening very carefully.
Sarah gets very bored listening to her grandparents rambling on about old times.
I'm listening to this band.
Movie subtitles
Three hours we've been listening to him talk about stupid shit that happened on the other side of the Earth thousands of years ago!
But you said that we could find paradise by listening to you.
Radio waves or TV signals have recognisable patterns, so shostack and other scientists are listening for deliberate signals from an alien planet.
Not listening or seeing what others said, that's how I lived my life.
Listening to the description, it seems like it's the Magistrate.
I've prayed to God my whole life, and I, and I never knew if she was listening, but. thank you, Big Mama.
Sometimes it's so beautiful that I just lie there, listening.
I'll be in here listening.
I saw her there listening.
I guess you've been listening to every word he said.
But, Hans, my Liebchen, you have not been listening. to a word I have been saying.
You have not been listening to me.
Well? I'm listening.
I've been listening for hours for him to come upstairs.
You're not listening to me.
I wasn't listening, Colonel.
Easy dough for standing outside and listening to a gun go off?
A quiet evening at home, reading and listening to the radio.
He may be standing there beside you listening.
What is she listening for?
Come on, I'm listening.
Hello? This is G speaking. Were you listening?
For listening to you and getting into your car.
A glass of champagne. sitting with real people and listening to the music.
You've been listening on the extension again!
You know, I've. I've prayed to God my whole life, and I, and I never knew if she was listening, but. thank you, Big Mama.
Yeah, go on, I'm listening.
Go ahead talking, I'm listening.
I couldn't help it. I was listening.
My husband and I were listening to the street singers. when I saw him go up to Madame Pelletier's flat.
Ace happened to be listening in on the radio.
Go ahead, I'm listening.
On the other hand he will look at me with a kind of thick, myopic expression. And although he is apparently listening intently.. And his eyes are wide open.
Are you listening, Dr Bomb?
That was just to make it tough in case the folks were listening in.
Are you listening to me?
Are you listening at doors now?
News and current affairs
Kaufman has consistently pressed them to do more - and do it much faster; to be sure, they and many others are now listening.
That requires listening as well as speaking.
Listening to the financial pundits, however, it often seems that history no longer matters.
No one is likely to be reading my emails or listening in on my Skype calls.
So, Germans and others, are you listening carefully to these voices?
In weekly classes (the atmosphere is that of a class, rather than a therapy group), and by listening to CD's or tapes at home during the week, participants learn the practice of mindfulness meditation.
I was frustrated because the hotel management was not listening to me when I asked for a quiet room - or later, when I complained.
And the hotel managers probably were not listening to me later via Twitter, either.
Companies spend a lot of time watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them.
What all companies really need to do to improve their performance is to get better at listening to the conversations that are already out there on the Internet.
There are two modes of listening.
Better do some more listening!
All of that is important, but then there's the listening you do so that your customers can feel listened to.
In the end, listening carefully is the best way to show respect for anyone, customer or partner, friend or boss.
Listening, it was hard to imagine that they could easily be dead - and would be, if not for this clinic.
Seeing the behavior of friends, all French, listening with me to Hollande, I was reminded of another moment.
Nonetheless Ban is sometimes criticized for not doing more, not listening enough, or deferring too much to the Big Five countries on the Security Council.
Although one would never know it from listening to the Congressional debate, the main effect of an agreement would be to lower Colombian barriers on US goods, not vice versa.
But he's always worth listening to, and never more so than with respect to the question that he has been asking for years: When the next nuclear-weapons catastrophe happens, as it surely will, the world will have to respond dramatically.
Bush, for example, would vastly improve US and global security if he started listening to top scientists and paid less attention to political lobbyists regarding the growing risks from man-made climate change.
But with the US not talking to Iran at any level, and the EU talking but not listening, the effort went nowhere.
But those realities, as if listening and responding, entered the fray.
The trouble is that few outsiders seem to be listening, much less preparing to confront the eventual limits of central-bank effectiveness.
Anyone following the press in Israel during the anniversary celebrations and listening closely to what was said in Jerusalem did not have to be a prophet to understand that matters are coming to a head.
Few around the world seemed to be listening.
Now, after listening to Obama in Cairo, they will have to ask themselves whether this is not another aspect of how the world works, and of Europe's position in it, that is about to change.
He was ready to cooperate on containing the Soviet Union, even agreeing to the installation of secret American intelligence listening posts along China's border to track Soviet missiles.
This will happen as economists' redirect their research efforts by listening to scientists with different expertise.
You must be able to draw a listening and cheering crowd to qualify for the elite.
To this day, I remain thankful to Gorbachev for not listening to agitators but to my arguments.
I was alone in the universe, listening to a voice that was and wasn't mine.