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1. He tried to move but his legs wouldn’t listen
2. “Very clear,” Johnny said, biting back remarks that would only lead to having to listen to Ackers talk more
3. She was pretty sure from the depth of the dust that Jorma and Venna had not discovered it either, but Hernon was too wound to listen to that much reason
4. She confided in Jorma more than she should have about Venna but felt Jorma was likely to listen to reason and thought he should be warned of their suspicions
5. We should listen to them, appreciate differences, encourage risk-taking (within limits) and discourage blind conformity
6. Violet being Violet, all she wants to do is smoke and listen to music and make fun of ugly kids
7. He would listen to nothing, but drove like he was possessed
8. What can you do? How can you make yourself heard when no one will listen? How can you be redeemed when you feel like your role in life is to be discarded and forgotten? You light the kerosene stove for dinner
9. Remember: without Listen, you won’t be able to use the other parts properly
10. Emma witters on, fussing about coming to see me later in the week while I half listen, my thoughts on the letter lying just out of reach
11. Nancy heard a series of beeps that told her the link was established through several layers of advanced encryptions, making it almost impossible for anyone to listen into her conversation
12. I listen to the distant sounds of an occasional car driving past the house …
13. "I have a financier I'll take it to, but I'll listen some more for that
14. I shake my head as he rushes into his study … oh Stephen, Stephen, you do wear your heart on your sleeve! Chuckling, I take myself out of earshot … it would be far too tempting to listen in and Stephen didn’t close the study door properly
15. So unless we listen, we do not become aware of his response
16. around four and went to the beach just to listen to the timeless roll of the waves
17. They listen to the waves pounding on the shore
18. I carry the coffee into the lounge and listen as Molly tells me about the annexe at their house
19. "Only because he knows what a hothead you are and no I didn't trick you, I tried to stop you coming here, remember? But you wouldn't listen to me
20. "Theo wait, you have to listen to me
21. You need to pull over and listen
22. "Da, you have to listen
23. As long as it lasts, I'll let it send, just in case there is someone there that can still listen, even if they can't send
24. So listen, nice to meet you and all, but I need to close up shop here if that's it?"
25. She’s pregnant! John comes over, gives her a hug, then puts his ear against her belly to listen to the baby
26. She flew into a place where people had gathered in a courtyard to listen to a speech from a man in robes on a high balcony
27. You always have time to listen
28. Since there was a crowd gathered, she stopped the probe to listen
29. "If you want to find her you have to listen to me
30. He was bound to listen beyond any reason or wisdom
31. "You wouldn't remember because it was all after your last backup, let me just say there's been a war, but Morg, listen I tried to understand it but there isn't time to understand the war and all that's happened since we backed up last
32. And when you listen carefully
33. Jubei ---> as you listen, that is my wish not to suffer more this
34. illustration of a headstrong person! He would not listen to any idea that was not his
35. Rather than adjourning early, the Haadij continued the discussions about the logistics of setting up a seed colony in the Kassidorian wilds among the astrophysicists and any others of the crew who wished to remain and listen or participate
36. He no longer paid any attention because he could see how little reason entered into the discussions and the council would not even listen to anything the remainder of the crew decided
37. My eyes on my mug, I listen as she goes on and on about what a pest he has been in the village since he was a teenager, getting girls into trouble left, right and centre
38. A cherry who wouldn't listen
39. listen to any help and/or suggestions they receive from any source
40. "Lancers, listen up," Burn said
41. In contrast to that spirit, listen to the apostle Paul
42. Yeah, we have to listen to a lot of preaching, and some of the lads go a bit goggle-eyed but it’s okay
43. Over the next few weeks, as the procedures and the rituals bedded down, as Robbie and Mick and the other guards who rotated on shift, mixed bonhomie with casual insults and violence, I started to listen and to watch
44. "Those who listen are very interested in covering their tracks
45. Do you know of any other ways they could listen in? I know of some more sophisticated techniques also but they require getting into the hardware compiler
46. As the youngest in the group I tended to listen more than I spoke, and I enjoyed a vicarious and voyeuristic expansion of my hinterland through the far more interesting stories from other people’s lives
47. She blamed herself also, for the same reason, but was never able to make him listen
48. soldiers would not listen to him when he tried to negotiate
49. You have to listen to classes with your ears, read textbooks with your eyes
50. He ran away from it all, throwing his hands up in the air and saying to anyone who might listen, “My wife is dead
1. She woke slowly, just listened for awhile
2. Ackers listened more intently
3. He listened as the beeps came closer; he was about to be caught
4. Jack used to know all the birds … I should have listened to him more!
5. When Ma had left for work, Peter talked to the only one who listened in these situations: his pop
6. out to be quite a long evening, he listened out for the strange creatures of the night but
7. Motivated by self-interest - Pharaoh listened to Moses and Aaron, and what did
8. The brief glimpses of my new home in this subterranean world that I had stored away as I watched and listened through the sacking started to coalesce and form a broader landscape
9. He just despised the thousand year wait but the more he listened, the more it sounded like they were going to get either that, or a continued voyage to the next terrestrial planet at Altair
10. He listened carefully to what I said, he agreed in everything and declared he had just found his soul mate
11. I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder
12. I listened for cars and voices beyond the diesel growl
13. I listened to the sounds of the apartment and realised that it must be late
14. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked
15. He listened intently enough, but was always wide-eyed and nervous, flinching visibly every time Robbie shouted out his updates on our preciously spinning time together
16. We listened again and recognised the diesel growl of trucks moving one after another down the road in convoy
17. We listened for some minutes, timing the thunder claps, and realised that it was a constant noise rather than an intermittent crashing of the heavens
18. At a party she always had a good buzz and just listened
19. In human terms, Smith listened to silence like we listen to Mozart on a Tuesday
20. Or listened to the rain, slapping on the ground?
21. I should have been trying to run, but for some reason I wasn’t afraid at all; I listened
22. I have listened
23. She motioned him to silence and listened intently
24. Alan listened and learned a lot about the animals and plants they were seeing
25. I’ve listened to Radio Four
26. Lady Beth had finally gotten over her fear; and Jerry had listened to Jake’s advice, and took his time and showed her what pleasure there was in loving well
27. She entered the cave and listened intently for any sound
28. " I should've listened
29. I should've listened when she said no
30. They stood by their dragons and listened to Daniel
31. The students listened intently to his every word
32. I stood utterly still and listened to the silence
33. Andrew listened intently; he was sure there were sounds, but he wasn’t sure what they were
34. As quietly as mice, they sat up in their beds and listened to every word their mother and father exchanged
35. ' With great concentration, he plucked a string and listened
36. “Shit”, she muttered, “if only I’d listened to the old man”
37. His forehead glistened with sweat as he listened to every word about the Lizard and my part of Cornwall
38. I took the proposals like a business agreement and listened
39. I usually listened to the nurses because some of them were friends of the family, and deep down knew they meant well
40. Elizabeth sat in the back of the Hall and listened in to everything that was said
41. They watched and listened in the market places, taverns and forums, and then, one morning, they called an impromptu press conference where they made a grand announcement
42. Doc Paul stood still and listened
43. He passed me the drink himself then stood by me, sipping his own while we listened, and I felt stronger for his company
44. I held my breath and listened
45. She watched and listened to the whole thing
46. The animals cocked their heads to the side and listened
47. The very next morning they telephoned the wily old publicist and gave him a piece of their combined minds, but having listened to their ranting and raving for nearly a whole minute, the old dog smiled to himself and asked the young couple, “Has your journey really been such a waste of time? Haven’t you learned a great many new and wonderful things?”
48. She listened to the story unfold with a growing sense of unease and disappointment, a sense that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the pictures cut to the image of an ecstatic twelve year old from Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the following weekend where the boy and his band would finally be unveiled
49. This told Duncan immediately that Rayne was correct in her assessment of the Warrior Queen, and he was glad he had listened to her council
50. She listened to him describe the beginnings of this Hold, all that it embodied, and was fascinated
1. Jorma leaned on his elbow and looked over Venna's curls toward the dock, looking at the boats and listening to the charraspas buzzing in the noontime hangleaves
2. In the end, my story took about 7000 words to relay, thanks for listening and would you shut the door behind you on your way out?
3. Would you be listening to what they are telling you from their perspective on life? Would you be being open minded and accepting that your point of view is just that, it’s your point of view
4. He asked his research partner, Nancy, if she was listening to what these children were saying
5. Establish a regular, relaxing bedtime routine such as soaking in a hot bath or hot tub and then reading a book or listening to soothing music
6. sign that shows you were listening, and is a sign of
7. Most of us have enjoyed listening to Urdu couplets that made us laugh
8. “Did you see how close that came to me?” he asked, but no one was listening
9. He pulled out a thin glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, pressing the glove against the door and listening
10. They walked up to Vinnie and stopped, watching him listening to the glove he had pressed against the door
11. The best way is to consistently emphasize that you are available to your grandchild--as a place of refuge, a listening ear, or anything else
12. Family remains a strong influence in kids' lives--even if teenagers and young adults do not always admit that they are listening to anything you say
13. “Are you listening to me?” Ackers said, breaking Johnny out of his focus
14. Audience has to be interested in listening to your views on the chosen subject because of your experience, knowledge and the clarity of presentation
15. Listening means not just hearing but also understanding what students are saying and how they are saying it
16. You should also be listening with your eyes as well
17. Instead, you need to survey the situation by listening with your eyes and ears (but never your hands!)
18. All you’ll have is “EER” which is really just a misspelled and misused listening organ
19. She wondered if Herndon was only pretending to be asleep and listening in
20. in the sunshine, listening to the
21. " He wondered how much of that pronouncement was due to the fact that Estwig was moving to this end of the harness and could be listening
22. Thanks for listening, Molly
23. ” Growing up in Puerto Rico/Miami, Lopez was heavily influenced by the fact that his mother grew her own fruits and vegetables and always used animal manure as fertilizer This organically based philosophy toward gardening techniques laid the foundation of Lopez beliefs and in 1972 he founded Astra’s Garden, based on something of a religion that subscribes to living in harmony with the environment: not polluting; treating all living plant life with respect; and, basically just listening to what the earth is telling us
24. " He knew that from listening to some of the gossip that went around in theirs
25. MAJEED, the bus driver, listens to his I-POD, occasionally loudly sings a verse of whatever Arabic song he happens to be listening to at the moment
26. Despite that, or if anything because of it, I totally stopped listening at all at that point
27. Glenelle was listening, but though she thought she knew the words, none of them seemed connected in a sensible way
28. I am getting very good at not listening to what they say to each other
29. He deleted all three without listening to anything more than the introduction
30. He cocked his head, listening for the
31. Glenelle didn't continue the conversation about her sister's love life that she had been listening to, she was more interested in discussing her sister's existence
32. Glenelle really shouldn't be listening in on this family gossip but she was fascinated
33. ask me provocative questions like “Why are you here?” She was listening
34. I was constantly listening to the radio programmes and sermons
35. I love listening to them talking about how things were when they were younger … some of them have seen tremendous changes in the way even the simplest things are done and their stories about the village are fascinating
36. He spent those first seconds of knowing failure listening to the blood pump like crashing surf in his ears and waiting for the inevitable call from Horcheese in the cockpit
37. Cain paid the consequence of not listening to God
38. I sat alone under the black shroud of my hood and counted out the next few minutes of solitude by listening to my own breathing
39. So intent did my listening become that my own breathing became shallow, became an annoyance
40. Listening to Menachem read out that note I realised the shameful truth
41. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship
42. After taking his first alleviating drink, he lets out a long sigh, trying to mock whoever may be listening
43. He cocked his head, listening for the tell tale whistle of slipstream and the dark, forbidding rumble of eighteen inch rims, and then smiled
44. She was sitting on the rail next to the winch listening for Vyinga
45. Long into the night, Kara stared into the darkness listening to the now steady rain falling outside her bedroom window
46. ’ She said not even bothering to protest; barely listening as he went on about taking risks
47. The endless cars stopped as the red light held them in its thrall and, in company with two women chatting about their husbands, one with a dog on a lead, a teenage boy listening to music on headphones and two casually dressed men, she crossed to the other side
48. listening to stories narrated by the village elders as
49. She’d tried thinking about it as she lay in bed listening to the Errdian night birds outside in the woods surrounding The Centre; the exercise had not got her anywhere
50. The door opened and Berndt appeared again; clearly he had been listening outside, waiting for this moment
1. He turns off the radio, waits a couple of seconds, turns the radio back on again, listens with a growing look of shock and alarm
2. He listens while I outline what Liz told me about her early life
3. MAJEED, the bus driver, listens to his I-POD, occasionally loudly sings a verse of whatever Arabic song he happens to be listening to at the moment
4. Ricci shifts nervously in his seat as he listens to Ahmed’s hysterics
5. In return, he listens to my moans about the maintenance of this site and my worries about the work
6. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!
7. He listens patiently, putting in a word when he can, but his gaze as it watches her face, is warm and affectionate
8. She listens amid coils and curls of hair
9. twice wed wife, and she listens to healing time,
10. what type of music do you think that a Christian Satanist listens to?
11. Sometimes, when he listens to Ken when they're alone in the flat above Snuggle's, he thinks that maybe he should broaden his horizons, but he knows in his heart that his crock of gold lies at the end of the lane, not at the end of the rainbow
12. She listens to the silence outside – not the silence of a town, she decides eventually, but not the silence of the country either … what to call him … the dilemma plagues her
13. Billy listens as Carol coos and clucks
14. He realises as he listens to the dull rubber soled thud of his feet on the road, as he moves in time with the beat of the bass line, that the monsters have never been that far away
15. Janet listens to God when she is at the store shopping
16. the mob listens better to the wizard as the leaders
17. The boy listens but
18. “What’s the point? Nobody listens
19. There is nothing worse than a MD who listens to rumours
20. “It listens underground and tells me which way they are going
21. “The smart kid who listens in on the History Club, and who challenges Orb and Prince, in class
22. Sometimes I go over them with Christina, and she listens better than I expected her to, Candor smart-mouth that she is
23. And listens to it, from the half words
24. away of the simple shall destroy them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them; but whoever listens to Me shall live safely and
25. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily in
26. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise; The
27. but the Lord tries the hearts; the wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and the liar listens to the naughty tongue; whoever mocks the
28. when he brings it with a wicked mind? The false witness shall perish, but the man who listens speaks constantly
29. “That listens,” Shamansky said
30. His eyes begin to tear up as he listens to what is around him
31. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens
32. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens
33. Jaden is looking around at the billions of stars while he listens to his new friend AI
34. This became one of Roger’s habits, even during Sunday sermons… He listens and meditates, but does not correct
35. AND EVEN HER HUSBAND WHO MOSTLY LISTENS TO HIS
36. As I gaze at him, I notice that already, he has displayed about seven different smiles; a lower tight-lipped just before he answers a question, a standard closed while he listens, and a side smile when he feels caught up, reserving the wide grins, and the radiant smiles for the humor
37. ” He listens to my mother on the phone and recites her words, beginning the incantation
38. and now listens to the clicking noises that the keys make when I hit them
39. man, one that listens to himself and who is able to see the
40. His sister listens with all her familiar intensity
41. He listens but hears nothing but the voice of the wind and the rustle of branches
42. 31 We know that God doesn't Listen to sinners but if anyone is a worshipper of God and does His will He listens to him
43. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice
44. you are those who bear witness to me that I said I am not the Messiah but I am one sent before him; And he who has a bride is a bridegroom and the friend of the bridegroom is he who stands and listens to him and rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice
45. In the meantime, she watches and listens as Johan offers Hartstongue the cup
46. Johan stands first watch and listens as the scribe lies down and stretches out his limbs to sleep
47. Johan listens to the screeches of birds, breathes in the salt smell of the water and welcomes the warmth of the sun on his face
48. 7 For because they wronged the innocent they shall be slain and judgment shall destroy the unrighteous; but he who listens to me shall abide trusting in hope and shall rest securely from all evil
49. listens to the laws of life and indicates the way towards creative goals
50. He listens for a breath