Listened Sentence Examples

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  • I listened to your advice.

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  • He listened intently for a few minutes.

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  • He listened attentively, asking questions now and then to clarify.

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  • He listened without saying a word as I revealed everything, including Julie's effort to collect the million dollars.

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  • He listened without comment until I'd finished.

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  • She listened to his words with cold comprehension.

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  • He listened for her and heard her stir in the secondary chamber to his right.

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  • In the first years of the Revolution, Cathelineau listened to the exhortations of Catholic priests and royalist émigrés, and joined the insurrection provoked by them against the revolutionary government.

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  • Just listened to the 2pm news bulletin on the radio here.

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  • It was nearly 8pm and getting dusky, but we listened dutifully as the warden went through the St Kilda by-laws one by one.

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  • Lisa closed the phone and listened as Giddon walked by.

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  • She listened, dismayed but also interested in someone interpreting the insanity of her mind in a way she could grasp.

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  • When I saw why, I finally listened.

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  • I've lost everything because I listened to stupid Immortals who thought they knew more than me, Katie nearly shouted in frustration.

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  • Dean even convinced himself as he listened to his unexciting voice.

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  • He listened for a few moments with Dean standing by the doorway as the boy's mother talked.

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  • He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

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  • For a while they made small talk and listened to the radio.

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  • Some said that babies recognized their mother's voice when they were first born because they had listened to them in the womb.

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  • He listened and watched—traits that made her wary.

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  • He listened to the hushed conversation that devolved into a hushed fight.

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  • He listened to her breathing, could almost taste her skin from their position.

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  • Taran listened, disturbed by her story.

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  • There will be nothing standing when we – Eden listened.

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  • She listened to the first message.

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  • He appeared as her ambassador at the court of Elizabeth to complain of the injustice done to her, and when he found he was not listened to he laid plans for her escape.

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  • The recital of the Azan must be listened to with the utmost reverence.

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  • He listened with tolerable calmness to their Grand Remonstrance, hut his attempt to seize the five members whom he accused of high treason made a good understanding impossible.

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  • Judges and juries alike were maddened with excitement, and listened greedily to the lies which poured forth from the lips of profligate informers.

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  • Gradually the ideas which were agitating Europe spread through Scandinavia into Iceland, and its claims were more respectfully listened to.

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  • The king must have listened to the curses as well as the blessings in chap. xxviii., and no doubt also to the exhortations in chaps.

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  • The mosques of the city were filled with crowds who listened to lectures on science and literature, law and religion.

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  • He was cordially received, and eagerly listened to, but his imprudent ardour served but to injure his cause.

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  • Barely seventeen months after the death of his first wife, the king listened to the advice of Canovas and married, in November 1879, the Austrian archduchess Maria Christina of Habsburg.

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  • Canovas so fully comprehended the necessity of averting American intervention that he listened to the pressing demands of secretary Olney and of the American minister in Madrid, Hannis Taylor, an.d laid before the Cortes a bill introducing home rule in Cuba on a more liberal scale than Maura, Abarzuza and Sagasta had dared to suggest two years before.

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  • In Italy those who prophesied the ruin of France were sure to be listened to.

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  • Had the British government listened to the representations then made to them, that, having conquered Egypt, it was imperative at once to suppress the revolt in the Sudan, the rebellion could have been crushed, but unfortunately Great Britain would do nothing herself, while the steps she allowed Egypt to take ended in the disaster to Hicks Pasha's expedition.

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  • They had to contend not only with the heretics, the nobles who protected them, and the people who listened to them and venerated them, but also with the bishops of the district, who rejected the extraordinary authority which the pope had conferred upon his legates, the monks.

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  • Wynn listened, aware of the demon blood bond and its origins from the time-before-time.

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  • Content with a no-sweat life made up of V-necks and corduroys and flannel shirts and music no one else listened to anymore?

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  • He listened as Kiki explained Rhyn's visit, ending with the half-demon's resolve to destroy the boundary between Death's domain and the Immortal underworld in the hopes of getting Katie back.  When Kiki finished, Kris poured himself a glass of whiskey while he thought.

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  • He emerged outside the jailer's door and readied himself for a confrontation.  The sounds of activity were thick in the hallways behind him, and he listened, trying to determine if he could hear any sounds that the demons were victorious in the underworld.

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  • She listened patiently to Dean's detailed explanation that he was from the police and interested in a tenant, Mr. J. Cleary of Bascomb Place.

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  • He listened and watched—traits that made her wary.

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  • There will be nothing standing when we – Eden listened.

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  • Most Guardians listened when their station chief, Gerry, told them the rules about not directly challenging Xander.

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  • Xander listened, uneasy at the thought of the Guardians and Gods he despised helping him with his issue.

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  • He would not even condescend to make a baby laugh if nobody else laughed, or even listened.

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  • Samaritans believe that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.

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  • The last CD I listened to was The Prodigy Singles - playing this at full volume makes doing the weekend housework almost bearable.

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  • He stood up and listened, but the wind, growing boisterous, shook the door and rattled the windows to distract his attention.

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  • The audience listened spellbound as the band played songs with their original introductions, many accompanied by duet concertina.

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  • After our meal the vise consul paid us a visit and listened gravely to our complaints.

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  • Only a complete dimwit would misinterpret it if they'd listened to the routine.

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  • Shamefully, it took me almost thirty years from the time I first listened to English sacred music to attend my first evensong.

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  • We listened to the crack of rock and the occasional expletive as a piece came too close for comfort.

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  • She listened with parted lips and shining eyes to my recital of our adventures.

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  • The government had listened to our argument about the fairness of the question and that the question should be not loaded or ambiguous.

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  • The lady there was just so lovely, she kind of just listened.

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  • The rich, poetic lyrics were listened to in hushed silence, creating a great sense of atmosphere.

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  • How many speeches have you listened to and books have you read that have included those seemingly magical words?

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  • Imagine if the mall punks took mescaline and listened to Terry Reich and the Banana Splits instead of Green Day.

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  • I guess the mods have listened (or someone has ).

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  • The prisoners remained perfectly calm as they listened to depth charges being dropped by the Japanese navy.

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  • I listened to nightly newscasts and read the local newspaper accounts, even making scrapbooks of the war's progress.

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  • Friend the Prime Minister listened with his customary exemplary patience.

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  • If we reflect some of their own phraseology back to them, they're unlikely to think we haven't listened.

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  • Anyone who has ever seen or listened to Theresa Heinz Kerry will know that he only married miss piggy for her money.

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  • In any matter touching church preferment you would of course be listened to.

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  • Listened to again some eleven years later it actually sounds rather ravishing.

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  • I unfolded my carefully rehearsed story to them listened to closely by Jane who sat nearby.

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  • They would have to prepare a more substantial repast for the hardier and more exercised intellects of those who listened to them.

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  • I listened to the clacking of her heels on the floor, the unnatural rhythm jarring with the low thrum of the music.

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  • You primary-school child will listened wide-eyed to what you say, and usually believe it.

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  • The Wizard had listened intently to what Eureka had said.

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  • Prince Andrew gaily bore with his father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him with evident pleasure.

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  • After supper, over their cherry brandy, Rostov and "Uncle" talked of past and future hunts, of Rugay and Ilagin's dogs, while Natasha sat upright on the sofa and listened with sparkling eyes.

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  • Pierre pushed his way into the middle of the group, listened, and convinced himself that the man was indeed a liberal, but of views quite different from his own.

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  • Several times she listened at the door, and it seemed to her that his mutterings were louder than usual and that they turned him over oftener.

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  • Princess Mary listened without understanding him; she led him to the house, offered him lunch, and sat down with him.

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  • Her songs have been listened to millions of times.

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  • She listened, glancing in the newest direction of his voice.

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  • Unfortunately, the more independent she became, the less she listened to his advice.

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  • Carmen and Jonathan folded clothes while they listened to him read.

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  • Carmen listened while loading the supper dishes in the dishwasher.

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  • As he listened to the words, his gaze traveled over her face.

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  • After supper the twins and Destiny crawled into his lap and listened quietly as he read them a story.

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  • Opening the door a crack, she listened to the night.

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  • The evening was strangely silent and as she paused with her hand at the door, she listened in vain for sounds within.

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  • He listened to her unguarded thoughts.

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  • She listened to the next two messages, also from Laurie, and all but dropped the phone.

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  • She listened to the voicemails first and was soon laughing so hard, she was in tears.

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  • She almost smiled, relieved he listened.

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  • He listened to her erratic breathing, beyond satisfied at the effect he had on her.

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  • She listened as he rustled around.

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  • Jessi listened, enraptured by the tale.

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  • Xander listened, unaccustomed to being told what to do in a world where he did what he wanted.

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  • She listened, though the edge of hysteria was in her gaze.

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  • On his deathbed remorse seized him; he bestowed his goods on the poor, restored unjust gains, freed his slaves, and every third day till his death listened to the reading of the Koran.

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  • He listened to no adverse criticism and receded before no obstacle.

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  • Rome, ever mindful of hei unique past, listened to Arnolds preaching.

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  • It was only the habit of interurban jealousy which prevented the communes from at once combining to resist demands which threatened their liberty of action, and would leave them passive at the pleasure of a foreign master The diet was opened at Roncaglia near Piacenza, where Fredericli listened to the complaints of Como and Lodi against Milan, of Pavia against Tortona and of the marquis of Montferrat against Asti and Chieri.

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  • Gibbon sat and listened unobserved to their strictures.

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  • His attack on the conduct of Governor Eyre in Jamaica was listened to, but with repugnance by the majority, although his action in this matter in and out of parliament was far from being ineffectual.

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  • At a very early age, about the year 200, he listened to the lectures of Pantaenus and Clement in the catechetical school.

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  • Gregory listened to the appeal; he projected - not, indeed, as has often been said, a crusade,' but a great expedition, which should recover ' Tradition credits a pope still earlier than Gregory VII.

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  • Thus during the six days of the week the Therapeutae "philosophized," each in his own cell, but on the Sabbath they met in a common assembly, where women also had places screened off from the men, and listened to a discourse from one who was the eldest and most skilled in their doctrines.

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  • All listened devoutly to a discourse delivered with an emphatic slowness and penetrating beneath the letter of the Law to the spiritual truth that lay hidden within.

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  • But his fame had gone forth throughout Europe, and intimations reached him from many quarters that his voice would be listened to everywhere with favour, in advocacy of the doctrines to the triumph of which he had so much contributed at home.

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  • In this supreme crisis, then, it is not surprising that the masses listened with sullen indifference to the fiery eloquence of the Coalition leaders.

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  • He lodged with Thomas Paine, and listened to the debates in the Convention.

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  • The old king listened, refused, wavered and ended by yielding.

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  • Savonarola listened unmoved to the awful words, and then quietly resumed his interrupted devotions.

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  • After the hard-won victory over Mosailima, Omar, fearing that the sayings of the prophet would be entirely forgotten when those who had listened to them had all been removed by death, induced Abu-Bekr to see to their preservation in a written form.

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  • At first she listened to the moderate counsels of l'Hopital in so far as to avoid siding definitely with either party, but her character and the habits of policy to which she had been accustomed, rendered her incapable of any noble aim.

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  • The naturalness of his acting fascinated those who, like Partridge in Tom Jones, listened to nature's voice, and justified the preference of more conscious critics.

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  • Talleyrand listened unmoved, but afterwards sent in his resignation of his seat on the council.

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  • The Council accordingly listened to the accusations of Ferrar's chapter, and in 1552 he was summoned to London and imprisoned on a charge of praemunire incurred by omitting the king's authority in a commission which he issued for the visitation of his diocese.

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  • The population had not been consulted as to the declaration of war, and their opinion was no more listened to now; but by giving up the cooperation of Parliament the prime minister at the same time abdicated his power in favour of the military authorities.

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  • After his third capture, in March 1841, he coolly boasted that he had lain under a sofa, and listened to a private conversation between the queen and Prince Albert.

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  • The opening lecture of his course was listened to by a large and appreciative audience.

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  • The whole nation listened aghast to the manifesto.

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  • Impressive in matter rather than in manner of delivery, and seldom rising to the level of eloquence in the sense in which that quality was understood in a House which had listened to Bright and Gladstone, his speeches were logical and convincing, and their attractive literary form delighted a wider audience than that which listens to the mere politician.

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  • As neither party yielded, Oudinot listened to his Catholic advisers, attacked Rome, with which the French Republic was technically at peace - and was roundly repulsed by Garibaldi.

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  • She read them, and she listened to Todorskiy, and to other advisers who told her that the Russian crown was well worth a mass, or that the differences between the Greek and Lutheran churches were mere matters of form.

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  • It seems possible that he had listened to the lectures of Nausiphanes,a Democritean philosopher, and Pamphilus the Platonist, but he was probably, like his father, merely an ordinary teacher.

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  • Before he was three he had insisted on being taken to hear Sacheverel preach at Lichfield Cathedral, and had listened to the sermon with as much respect and probably with as much intelligence, as any Staffordshire squire in the congregation.

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  • William listened and was convinced.

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  • They, again, constantly intrigued with Spain, and there were moments when James, driven desperate by the preachers, listened to their projects.

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  • He listened, however, to the advice of his friend Sir Robert Henley, a brother barrister, afterwards known as Lord Chancellor Northington, and persevered, working on and waiting for success.

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  • Palmerston listened to the tsar's proposals, conveyed through Baron Brunnow, "with surprise and admiration."

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  • He accordingly set himself to obtain information about other religions, sent to Goa, requesting that the Portuguese missionaries there should visit him, and listened to them with intelligent attention when they came.

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  • The senate listened with delight to his promises to rule according to the maxims of Augustus, and to avoid the errors which had rendered unpopular the rule of his predecessor, while his unfailing clemency, liberality and affability were the talk of Rome.

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  • Yet the words Schopenhauer then listened to, often with baffled curiosity, certainly influenced his speculation.

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  • Knox was accordingly allowed to preach privately for six months throughout the south of Scotland, and was listened to with an enthusiasm which made him break out, "O sweet were the death which should follow such forty days in Edinburgh as here I have had three!"

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  • It was during his stay in England that the shah, for two or three days without his grand vizier, who was mourning for the death of his brother, listened to bad advice and granted a concession for the monopoly of lotteries in Persia to a Persian subject.

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  • Those who thought him astray on the subject of religion listened to him with delight when he poetized the commonplaces of art, politics, literature or the household.

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  • The age in which Lotze lived and wrote in Germany was not one peculiarly fitted to appreciate the position he took up. Frequently misunderstood, yet rarely criticized, he was nevertheless greatly admired, listened to by devoted hearers and read by an increasing circle.

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  • It is urged with justice that the greater part of Cicero's Defence of Archias was irrelevant to the issue and would not have been listened to by a Greek court of justice or a modern jury.

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  • Victorinus taught him rhetoric. He attended the law-courts, and listened to the Roman advocates pleading in the Forum.

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  • At eight next morning she entered the hall of execution, having taken leave of the weeping envoy from Scotland, to whom she gave a brief message for her son; took her seat on the scaffold, listened with an air of even cheerful unconcern to the reading of her sentence, solemnly declared her innocence of the charge conveyed in it and her consolation in the prospect of ultimate justice, rejected the professional services of Richard Fletcher, dean of Peterborough, lifted up her voice in Latin against his in English prayer, and when he and his fellow-worshippers had fallen duly silent prayed aloud for the prosperity of her own church, for Elizabeth, for her son, and for all the enemies whom she had commended overnight to the notice of the Spanish invader; then, with no less courage than had marked every hour and every action of her life, received the stroke of death from the wavering hand of the headsman.

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  • For a time Philip was both willing and able to protect his accomplice, but ultimately he appears to have listened to those who, whether truly or falsely, were continually suggesting that Perez had had motives of his own, arising out of his relations with the princess of Eboli, for compassing the assassination of Don John's secretary; be this as it may, from trying to screen Perez the king came to be the secret instigator of those who sought his ruin.

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  • Then, when they saw that he was about to speak, they nestled softly in the grass and listened.

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  • He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.

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  • The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened.

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  • They waited and listened.

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  • Boris, with one leg crossed over the other and stroking his left hand with the slender fingers of his right, listened to Rostov as a general listens to the report of a subordinate, now looking aside and now gazing straight into Rostov's eyes with the same veiled look.

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  • Alexander listened attentively to what was said to him and, bending his head, smiled pleasantly.

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  • He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing.

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  • Prince Andrew stood by a window talking to the ladies and listened to her.

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  • She listened joyfully (as though she had not expected it) to the charm of the notes reverberating, filling the whole empty ballroom, and slowly dying away; and all at once she felt cheerful.

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  • She listened to the sounds in the hall.

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  • Natasha listened with concentrated attention, trying but failing to take in the meaning of his words.

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  • When Prince Andrew spoke (he could tell a story very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her.

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  • She went several times to his door on tiptoe and listened, as he lighted one pipe after another.

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  • He bent down his head and listened, shaking a warning finger at his master.

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  • Natasha sat down, listened to their talk with a serious and thoughtful air, and then got up again.

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  • She sat behind the bookcase with her eyes fixed on a streak of light escaping from the pantry door and listened to herself and pondered.

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  • She sat down at the table and listened to the conversation between the elders and Nicholas, who had also come to the table.

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  • Sonya, as she listened, thought of the immense difference there was between herself and her friend, and how impossible it was for her to be anything like as bewitching as her cousin.

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  • Dimmler, who had seated himself beside the countess, listened with closed eyes.

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  • Well, say you went to the barn now, and listened.

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  • Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess' cruel words, without understanding what was required of her.

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  • Prince Bolkonski listened as a presiding judge receives a report, only now and then, silently or by a brief word, showing that he took heed of what was being reported to him.

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  • He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.

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  • Pierre raised his shoulders and listened open-mouthed to what was told him, scarcely able to believe his own ears.

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  • Murat's face beamed with stupid satisfaction as he listened to "Monsieur de Bal-macheve."

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  • Balashev bowed his head with an air indicating that he would like to make his bow and leave, and only listened because he could not help hearing what was said to him.

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  • Prince Andrew listened and observed in silence.

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  • So thought Prince Andrew as he listened to the talking, and he roused himself only when Paulucci called him and everyone was leaving.

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  • Rostov, smoking his pipe and turning his head about as the water trickled down his neck, listened inattentively, with an occasional glance at Ilyin, who was pressing close to him.

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  • The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages.

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  • Pierre went up to the circle that had formed round the speaker and listened.

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  • Princess Mary listened attentively to what he told her.

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  • She had not slept and had stolen downstairs on tiptoe, and going to the door of the conservatory where he slept that night had listened at the door.

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  • What gentleness and nobility there are in her features and expression! thought he as he looked at her and listened to her timid story.

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  • He was listening to the general's report-- which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo- Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war.

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  • Pierre listened to him, scarcely able to repress a smile.

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  • The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden.

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  • Having listened to a suggestion from Davout, who was now called Prince d'Eckmuhl, to turn the Russian left wing, Napoleon said it should not be done, without explaining why not.

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  • Napoleon walked about in front of his tent, looked at the fires and listened to these sounds, and as he was passing a tall guardsman in a shaggy cap, who was standing sentinel before his tent and had drawn himself up like a black pillar at sight of the Emperor, Napoleon stopped in front of him.

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  • Occasionally he stopped, listened to the firing, and gazed intently at the battlefield.

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  • He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited.

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  • The commander in chief listened to what was being said and sometimes asked them to repeat their remarks, but did not himself take part in the conversations or express any opinion.

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  • Having listened to her mother's objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically.

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  • Natasha moved a few steps forward and stopped shyly, still holding her handkerchief, and listened to what the housekeeper was saying.

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  • The count stood still at the window and listened.

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  • The count stood by the window and listened without turning round.

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  • The Frenchman listened in silence with the same gloomy expression, but suddenly turned to Pierre with a smile.

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  • For a long time Natasha listened attentively to the sounds that reached her from inside and outside the room and did not move.

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  • The Emperor listened in silence, not looking at Michaud.

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  • He did not sing like a trained singer who knows he is listened to, but like the birds, evidently giving vent to the sounds in the same way that one stretches oneself or walks about to get rid of stiffness, and the sounds were always high-pitched, mournful, delicate, and almost feminine, and his face at such times was very serious.

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  • His wrath, once expended, did not return, and blinking feebly he listened to excuses and self-justifications (Ermolov did not come to see him till the next day) and to the insistence of Bennigsen, Konovnitsyn, and Toll that the movement that had miscarried should be executed next day.

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  • None of them listened to orders.

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  • At one spot he stopped and listened.

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  • The voices grew in harmonious triumphant strength, and Petya listened to their surpassing beauty in awe and joy.

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  • But well as he knew it, Pierre now listened to that tale as to something new, and the quiet rapture Karataev evidently felt as he told it communicated itself also to Pierre.

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  • The same submissive, expressionless look with which he had listened to the Emperor's commands on the field of Austerlitz seven years before settled on his face now.

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  • Previously he had talked a great deal, grew excited when he talked, and seldom listened; now he was seldom carried away in conversation and knew how to listen so that people readily told him their most intimate secrets.

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  • Pierre kept saying as he leaned toward her with his whole body and eagerly listened to her story.

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  • Pierre listened to her with lips parted and eyes fixed upon her full of tears.

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  • As he listened he did not think of Prince Andrew, nor of death, nor of what she was telling.

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  • He listened to her and felt only pity for her, for what she was suffering now while she was speaking.

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  • As she listened to it she saw before her his smooth handsome forehead, his mustache, and his whole face, as she had so often seen it in the stillness of the night when he slept.

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  • Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and in her turn began thinking aloud.

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  • Nicholas, who had left his nephew, irritably pushed up an armchair, sat down in it, and listened to Pierre, coughing discontentedly and frowning more and more.

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  • This evening he listened to Pierre in a sort of trance, and fancy--as we were going in to supper I looked and he had broken everything on my table to bits, and he told me of it himself at once!

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  • Countess Mary listened to her husband and understood all that he told her.

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  • A full house listened in rapt silence as the tragic events unfolded... David Rex ' Oedipus was a most moving figure.

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  • Hundreds of people listened to speeches and danced to samba rhythms as four " waitresses " passed through the crowd offering Coke blood drinks.

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  • If I listened very carefully, I 'm sure I would hear sounds of snoring in the background.

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  • He listened carefully to our brief whilst being clear in the most tactful way about what he would advise.

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  • He laid the sleeping squirrel on the bench, listened, then instinctively stood up and walked to the thicket 's edge.

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  • I listened anxiously to the thrum of the engine as we labored into the cloud.

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  • Only a few days ago have I listened to two young men preaching the good tidings of salvation.

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  • It was hard to stay awake as I listened to my boss dictate a long message.

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  • Around 2001, Apple released the iPod, which revolutionized how audiophiles listened to music, and sold out quickly.

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  • Maybe the products are too expensive or they'd like to shop there but don't have time; whatever the reason, a gift card to that store shows you listened to them, which is sometimes a gift in itself.

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  • Though anything would have been an improvement on that, David really listened to his clients' desire to have a room that would function as a play area for their two special needs children as well as a TV/lounging room for the grown-ups.

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  • Andie fiddled with her wedding dress while she listened to me moan from warm water soothing my aching body.

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  • To get in the right frame of mind during the shoot, she listened to John Legend's new album.

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  • If you listened to my radio show August 14 on www.healthylife.com you know that my guest was Kelly Roper, our own resident expert at LoveToKnow Dogs.

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  • Designers listened and are definitely reaping the rewards.

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  • They had listened to their customers who said they needed stylish clothes in larger sizes.

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  • This activity would be a good way to test a young person's knowledge about Internet safety issues after they have listened to a presentation or participated in some other activities relating to this topic.

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  • The following three nights the individuals could select the type of sound they listened to from the sound machine.

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  • We've all listened to rap and rock music, as well as watched violent movies with excessive swearing and suggestive scenes.

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  • From the music they made and listened to, to their dress and wild hair, these classic punk hair styles embody the very essence of the punk scene.

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  • Have you ever listened to a very young child recount the entire plot of the movie he just watched?

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  • Venus became a major player in the swimsuit industry because we listened to our customers!

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  • Most stations can be listened to with existing Windows and Mac audio players, or from the station's website.

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  • If you haven't listened to this album, you're in for a side-splitting treat.

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  • For first time I really listened in my life.

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  • Having not felt listened to or understood, she may not be in a place where she can talk with you right now.

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  • If you were in a relationship with a guy you were attracted to, who called you when he said he would, who opened the door for you, held your hand and listened to you, do you think you would miss your ex as much as you do?

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  • Many of their sweet love letters can be listened to over the Internet.

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  • The fact that you listened and did the footwork involved in tracking it down will mean a lot, even if it's something relatively small.

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  • The fans listened to everything breathlessly.

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  • The young lady listened with her hands covering her mouth.

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  • When he gifts you with your first piece of jewelry, it'll be exactly what you wanted because he has listened and watched you in order to get to know who you are and what you like.

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  • You might have read all the parenting books, and listened to your pediatrician's advice, but still encounter various child behavior problems.

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  • The following summer, Tim's older brother, a Peace Corp volunteer who had just returned from a two-year job in South Africa, listened to the stories from his younger brother about the teasing.

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  • The radio shows could be listened to while their audience performed any number of tasks, but a visual format would require that they sit down in front of the television to 'watch' what was happening.

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  • Take a look at some of the options listened below to see which mat will suit your yoga needs.

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  • Because of this, you may overeat simply because you haven't listened to what your body is saying.

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  • The major labels are hard at work developing CDs that will only play in your player, downloads that can only be listened to X number of times and so on.

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  • Others still can only be listened to online.

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  • If you have ever really listened to this Grammy Award winning band, you know that some of the Pearl Jam lyrics sound a little, well, confusing.

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  • If you've ever really listened to Colbie Caillat lyrics, then you know they are simple, yet extremely relatable.

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  • There are many different songs about Christmas that can be downloaded or purchased on CDs, though most can also be listened to online for free.

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  • Growing up, you probably had favorite songs that you and your family listened to around Christmas.

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  • If you've listened to popular radio over the past few years, you have likely heard songs like I Kissed A Girl, Hot N Cold, California Gurls and Teenage Dream.

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  • Terrified, Sarah finally listened to Reese, and the two flee into the night.

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  • Well, that couldn't diminish the thrill, but I wish I could have listened to the message a couple more times.

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  • The podcast is recorded, so it can be downloaded to your computer or mobile device and listened to whenever there's time.

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  • Effective Learning - Anyone who has ever listened to "books on tape" knows that listening is just as effective as reading - possibly even more effective - when it comes to learning new concepts.

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  • As their business grew, clients kept asking for more and more website assistance, so Edit.com CEO Steve Grushcow listened to the marketplace and starting to offer website conversion services.

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  • Alex must have listened to her message.

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  • The problem is, you neither asked nor listened.

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  • He listened for a minute and then his tone was sharp.

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  • Through her bedroom doorway, Adrienne watched him as he listened solemnly.

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  • For the next week Cynthia listened to - and even found herself instigating - discussions about Mr. Cade.

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  • She breathed deeply of the clear air and listened to the sound of the creek darting over rocks - swirling against its banks.

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  • Betsy chatted away while Howie, as nervous as a groom, simply listened.

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  • I'd rather have entertained my house guest than listened to his sniveling and begging but alas, I do what I have to do.

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  • I listened until the silence below was interrupted by conversation and called loudly for the others to come up.

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  • I woke him up but he listened intently while I explained what I wanted he and Howie to do.

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  • Instead I listened to his harangue about the difficulty they encountered with the session I'd practically demanded, the break-ins in Boston.

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  • After that introduction, my wife listened; for more than five minutes, while Howie apparently continued to ramble.

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  • I listened, as tight as a bow string as Howie narrated in a whispered voice as he was patrolling around the house.

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  • I re played the recording of our aborted final session and had judged it incorrectly when I first listened.

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  • Speck tossed him his shirt, which he donned as he listened.

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  • Yully listened, dismayed by the lies stacking up on top of one another.

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  • Thus far, he'd listened to her, and she hoped he feared Damian enough to continue paying attention.

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  • Jule's throat tightened as he listened to the two of them spar verbally.

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  • Xander crossed his arms, his head tilted in interest as he listened.

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  • Yully listened, breathless, to the strangers who vowed to protect her from a threat similar to her father.

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  • Despite being able to bench press two of her, the men actually listened.

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  • He rattled off more rules, and she listened without registering any of them.

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  • Sofia listened and trailed them through the house that resembled a frat house.

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  • Sofia listened as she approached Traci's bed and gazed down at the unconscious woman.

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  • She listened, struck by the sorrow in his voice.

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  • Damian listened to the door close behind her, stunned by what he'd seen in her thoughts.

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  • The sound was nearly inaudible but both stopped and listened attentively.

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  • The woman listened patiently, or so Dean assumed by her silence.

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  • Here was this guy—yes, an old married guy— who listened when I said something.

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  • He listened for the siren but heard only his Jeep, and twice, the scrapes of his underside as he bottomed out on protruding stone.

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  • He listened, but heard only the echo of his call.

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  • One of Mrs. Worthington's friends taped the debate and Fred and Cynthia listened to it while Dean nursed his ego, and an ale or two, on the front porch.

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  • They listened again and it was repeated.

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  • Martha listened, her initial disappointment melting away.

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  • He listened, though, curious what kind of deal human-Deidre had made with the only goddess to ever outsmart the Dark One and Immortal Laws.

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  • He listened, thoughts turning darker.

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  • She listened, not wanting to cry or acknowledge the level of pain she put him through for so long.

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  • Gabriel listened to her tell him what she did, the mind check and traitor forgotten.

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  • Gabriel listened, jaw clenched.

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  • Katie listened attentively and then thought it over a few minutes.

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  • His movements stilled as he listened.

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  • He listened intently, swirling and sipping his wine.

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  • Deidre listened to their rustling and distant cries and focused on placing her feet along the path.

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  • She listened, dread fluttering through her, and sipped her wine.

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  • Wired, emotional energy made it hard to concentrate as she listened.

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  • She listened to his rant, peppered with language no kid Toby's age should hear.

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  • She breathed deeply of his scent and listened to his heart beat from her position sprawled atop him.

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  • She listened but heard no one downstairs to indicate the movers had been through and glanced at the clock on her nightstand.

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  • Evelyn listened and cringed, not sure how she would explain everything.

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  • A'Ran listened to the Council members, uneasy.

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  • Kiera listened, interested despite trying not to be.

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  • Jetr listened and spoke, glancing over after a few minutes.

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  • Donnie responded with nods, smiles and gestures while Fred and Dean, scrunched into the back seat, politely listened.

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  • I should have listened to you and waited to tell him.

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  • He tried to hide it, however, if one really listened, they could ascertain that he came from a different time and place.

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  • Jackson jumped up and listened to her heart.

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  • She stood beside Alex and listened to the truck door slam and the engine race when Josh started it.

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  • She listened, unable to fathom the magnitude of chaos he spoke of.

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  • She listened for the familiar thrum of energy over her breathing.

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  • Brady motioned for his men to ready themselves as he listened.

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  • She tapped her earpiece, listened intently, and responded with a few words.

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  • Brady pulled out his water bottle as he listened.

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  • Lana listened, nibbling a pastry.

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  • Lana listened, chilled at the coldness and precision of his directions.

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  • Usually, he was the one doing it, so she'd listened to him.

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  • Lana listened as he described their plan then continued to talk about the others.

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  • Lana rolled onto her side and listened, crying herself to sleep for a different reason this night.

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  • Katie listened hard and soon heard it as well.

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  • He said if you listened to him, you could've found me faster.

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  • She snuggled under the blanket and listened to the rain.

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  • He needed her companionship, yet he had listened patiently.

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  • He ignored the senses warning him of the guards drawing near and instead smoothed dark hair from her face and listened for her breathing.

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  • Pushing herself up, she listened.

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  • The only speech made by him during his three years in parliament that was listened to with impatience was, curiously enough, his speech in favour of counteracting democracy by providing for the representation of minorities.

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  • Here was this guy—yes, an old married guy— who listened when I said something.

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  • He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

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  • The Prince had listened with attention.

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  • The Mangaboo people listened, but showed no great interest.

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  • And as he spoke, the other lawmakers listened in silence till the darkness began to fade and the sky grew bright again.

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  • The woodman sang of the wild forest; the plowman sang of the fields; the shepherd sang of his sheep; and those who listened forgot about the storm and the cold weather.

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  • And all of the sweet-faced sisters and other women of the place listened while he sang again the wonderful song of the creation.

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  • The charcoal man and his wife listened to this little dispute, and said nothing.

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  • I saw the one through which Emperor Dom Pedro listened to the words, "To be, or not to be," at the Centennial.

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  • The narrative affected her greatly when first she listened to it.

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  • The hunter still kept his place and listened to the hounds.

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  • I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries.

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  • The princess listened, smiling.

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  • Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened indifferently to his wife's chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also come into the hall.

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  • They listened to the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of understanding but not wishing to appear to do so.

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  • The princess as usual spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh.

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  • The count sat between them and listened attentively.

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  • Pierre listened to the colonel's speech and nodded approvingly.

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  • He listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events.

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  • It was evident that Kutuzov himself listened with pleasure to his own voice.

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  • Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince Andrew was natural and pleasant.

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  • Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.

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  • Rostov looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and around him.

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  • He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, "So you are still at that silly business!" quickly closed his eye again, and let his head sink still lower.

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  • He gazed silently at the hills which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of firing in the valley.

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  • He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices speaking French.

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  • Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

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  • He listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his ordeal was about to begin.

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  • He took the seat indicated to him beside the fair Helene and listened to the general conversation.

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  • He shut his eyes, rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery.

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  • He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant's face listened to his regular breathing.

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  • Prince Andrew, looking straight in front of him, listened in silence to Pierre's words.

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  • Pierre listened to her attentively and seriously.

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  • As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka.

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  • Rostov listened and made out the word.

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  • Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly.

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  • At the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked the names of those who had come with Napoleon and about the uniforms they wore, and listened attentively to words spoken by important personages.

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  • She could not sleep and several times went to the door and listened, wishing to enter but not deciding to do so.

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  • On waking she listened to what was going on behind the door and, hearing him groan, said to herself with a sigh that things were still the same.

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  • A large rock beside the road provided a place to rest while she listened for vehicles.

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  • She should have listened then.

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  • For once, she wished she'd listened to Gage or Talal.

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  • Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand.  He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead.  Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.

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  • Fully alert, he listened, but heard only night noises, the ticking of the hall clock, a slight breeze, the ever-present furnace rumbling heat to the old building.

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