Sentence examples for had listened for from inspiring English sources

As a fan of The Archers, I had listened for months as smooth-talking snake-oil merchant Rob Titchener slowly crushed the life out of his partner, Helen.

I read that scientists had "listened for 20 milliseconds" as two black holes circled each other like wary boxers, then collapsed into "a dark and violent merger".

In those sanctuaries and auditoriums, in Knoxville, Tenn., and Salt Lake City, judges had listened for qualities like "squillo," the slightly trumpetlike timbre that can propel a voice to the far reaches of a house, and "holes" — spans of notes in which a flawed singer's resonance threatens to disappear.

The governor and others had listened for years to objections from Litchfield residents who didn't want the courthouse in the their neighborhoods, or who cited a state policy that the courthouse should be built in an urban environment, which Litchfield definitely is not.

She wrote: "Those of us who had listened for months as Rob stole Helen's sense of self, who had come to understand the insidious crime of coercive control (not introduced till 2015) knew that she was innocent, but would the jury?" And when they did, observed Pearson, "there was such a sigh of relief across the land that trees swayed and hearts leapt with gladness".

The vibrato is a very important tool for classical singers because it makes it easier for them to match the pitch of a note with the music; it is also important for the listener, as it prevents them from losing their sensitivity after having listened for the same sound for too long.

I could have listened for hours – he really was godlike to me".

Grim and grisly subject matter all, but I could have listened for hours.

Asked to explain the scene before him, any rational outsider would have listened for a rapidly gaining search party of Alsatian-led stormtroopers.

And at the time Lena O'Brien poses the question, in the early hours of the morning, from the bed in which she has listened for her delinquent daughter's footsteps, Edna O'Brien has fled the country, at least physically.

Since that meeting, in 1961, spacecraft have surveyed all the major bodies of the solar system, except for Pluto, and radio astronomers have listened for intelligent signals from more than 1,000 stars, so far in vain.