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She woke slowly, just listened for awhile
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Ackers listened more intently
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He listened as the beeps came closer; he was about to be caught
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Jack used to know all the birds … I should have listened to him more!
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When Ma had left for work, Peter talked to the only one who listened in these situations: his pop
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out to be quite a long evening, he listened out for the strange creatures of the night but
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Motivated by self-interest - Pharaoh listened to Moses and Aaron, and what did
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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
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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
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He listened carefully to what I said, he agreed in everything and declared he had just found his soul mate
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I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder
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I listened for cars and voices beyond the diesel growl
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I listened to the sounds of the apartment and realised that it must be late
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I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked
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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
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We listened again and recognised the diesel growl of trucks moving one after another down the road in convoy
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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
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At a party she always had a good buzz and just listened
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In human terms, Smith listened to silence like we listen to Mozart on a Tuesday
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Or listened to the rain, slapping on the ground?
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I should have been trying to run, but for some reason I wasn’t afraid at all; I listened
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I have listened
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She motioned him to silence and listened intently
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Alan listened and learned a lot about the animals and plants they were seeing
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I’ve listened to Radio Four
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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
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She entered the cave and listened intently for any sound
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" I should've listened
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I should've listened when she said no
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They stood by their dragons and listened to Daniel
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The students listened intently to his every word
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I stood utterly still and listened to the silence
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Andrew listened intently; he was sure there were sounds, but he wasn’t sure what they were
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As quietly as mice, they sat up in their beds and listened to every word their mother and father exchanged
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' With great concentration, he plucked a string and listened
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“Shit”, she muttered, “if only I’d listened to the old man”
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His forehead glistened with sweat as he listened to every word about the Lizard and my part of Cornwall
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I took the proposals like a business agreement and listened
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I usually listened to the nurses because some of them were friends of the family, and deep down knew they meant well
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Elizabeth sat in the back of the Hall and listened in to everything that was said
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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
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Doc Paul stood still and listened
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He passed me the drink himself then stood by me, sipping his own while we listened, and I felt stronger for his company
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I held my breath and listened
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She watched and listened to the whole thing
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The animals cocked their heads to the side and listened
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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?”
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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
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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
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She listened to him describe the beginnings of this Hold, all that it embodied, and was fascinated
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Awake now, he sat up and listened to the Hold
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Tarak was right about the cold, she should have listened to him; her judgment was very bad as of late
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I listened as I struggled with the ribbon-like pasta
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She listened in excitement
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He closed his eyes and listened; creaks and groans of metal on metal; hissing of other steam vents towards the back of the large room
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listened and ranted back at these disembodied sounds, Billy heard a
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If he hadn’t made the promise to Alan without thinking, he would have listened to her and Bishop Rendellyn
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As quietly as mice, they sat up in their beds and listened to
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Kirk and Ruby listened in horror as they heard the conversation
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“Shit”, she muttered, “if only I’d listened to
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Yet, He knows when and when not it would have been listened to
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They watched and listened in the market places, taverns and
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Naria listened saying nothing, but it was plain that she was not pleased
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and the thump of whatever music the kids listened to these days
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Ava listened to all of that and tried to assimilate it
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combined minds, but having listened to their ranting and raving for
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I listened to Suzanne’s choking sobs and coughing
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Upstairs in the bedroom Helen Roach listened to the silence of
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She listened to the story
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Tom found himself thinking along military lines as he listened to
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“Once, about six years ago when I was still in Delaware, I was standing in the checkout line at a food store and I listened to two women in front of me
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He went inside and listened to the messages on his answering machine
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“Amanda!” He shouted loudly and listened to his voice echo off the trees and stalled coal cars
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lead to the kinds of stories he had listened to as a child or, later, read
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The tall man next to him, who had listened to the entire exchange from when the Sportsman and his friends returned and left, said simply, “He thinks he's Buffalo Bill Cody, and he's right! You didn't recognize him? He's in the papers often enough?” The tall man shook his head in pity at the shopkeeper and walked away
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Ozzie had listened sympathetically as she had related all this to him and, while she consoled herself with the food he’d ordered for her, suggested that perhaps she would consider marrying him and leaving all that behind
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I should have listened to her then instead of all her ‘I told you so’s’ til now
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The twins had listened to their mother carefully and finally Tania asked, “What training must we have?” then Poly continued, “And how shall we build this wall that that keeps out the tigers, and protects honest men?”
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He listened to their
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She listened to her voice, alert for any suspicion of a tremor … no, it sounded normal
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and Bram listened carefully as Tom told them about the motorcycle
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Briz listened closely, occasionally interrupting with questions and
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She listened to the story as attentively as she could, believing his version of it much more than Enjteen’s
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The Inspector listened to the now familiar story unfold
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Once he had settled for himself their relative personal tastes and positions in society and industry, he listened more attentively to the banter with which the three men were engaged
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could blame her? The guy listened to her talk about herself for as long as she
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Spelman asked after Harry's journey and prospects, to which Kaitlyn listened and interjected comments excitedly
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Harry, Kaitlyn, and Yolanda Spelman listened to the men's dialog with growing appreciation for each man's circumspection and honor in the employment of their several gifts in the service of their chosen professions
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” Father then began a story, to which we all listened intently
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Carl listened with
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The ladies discussed the jaunt to Stratford, on the 'inspection' tour, and the gentlemen, wisely, listened without interruption
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“Some,” Jorma answered, and listened to a description of a machine used to make coach wheels, something called a rotary laminater
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Kaitlyn had listened with rapt interest to every detail, and had accepted with gratitude each time Harry called attention to how she held and walked with her pole
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frown as he listened to the retreating footsteps of his
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They listened intensely to every word, as the girls cleared the table
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White Feathers and Jameson with George sat in the rockers, drinks in hand, and listened as Belle and the girls compiled the events variously presented through the three initial documents
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Jameson and the two men at ease beside him listened, smiled broadly and closed their eyes in appreciation for their friend-son-nephew and his honorable dispatch of the incident
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On that afternoon, Titania and Hipolyta with Jameson sat around the big table in the great room with their elders and listened as George read aloud a copy of the notice delivered personally by the Council Secretary to all store owners in the village
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Jameson listened attentively and had to agree that his writings did not have the flourish and general elegance Titania and Hipolyta's compositions conveyed
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Oh sure, they listened to what she had to say, but never with both ears perked
