When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.

When not actively in contact with another station, the HF SSB transceiver constantly scans through a list of HF frequencies called channels, listening for any ALE signals transmitted by other radio stations.

When a phone call informs Caul that " We know that you know ; keep your mouth shut ", he believes his own apartment has been bugged and goes on a frantic search for the listening device, tearing up walls and floorboards and ultimately destroying his apartment to no avail.

When I stopped trying to impress musicians and started getting in touch with what the people on the street were listening to, I started writing hits.

When calling late innings, Ashburn would occasionally ask on-air if the staff of Celebre's Pizza, a nearby pizzeria in South Philly, was listening to the radio.

Dodds described his impressions of New York as a place where people listened to jazz rather than danced to it: " When I first went to New York it seemed very strange to have people sitting around and listening rather than dancing.

Erasmus said of Colet: “ When I listen to Colet it seems to me that I am listening to Plato himself ”.

When dragons do speak, they are worth listening to, as they have long lifespans over which to gain great wisdom.

When asked how they spent their leisure time, 80 percent of a sample of men and women surveyed by the government in 1986 said they averaged about two and a half hours per weekday watching television, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers or magazines.

When, after a few months at the studio, he was asked to watch rushes of Lili Damita to gauge her Spanish accent, he refused and sent a message to studio boss Irving Thalberg stating that he was there as a Frenchman, not a Spaniard, and he " didn't have time to waste listening to one of the whores.

When asked why he has little to say during hearings of the court, he told a high school student that the ridicule he received for his Gullah speech as a young man caused him to develop the habit of listening rather than speaking in public.

When talking about language skills, the four basic ones are: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

When a mobile is idle, it is mostly listening to a paging channel.

When Stewart Lee pointed out that it would be easier just to say that his ideal woman was Julia Sawalha, Richard added: " No, Stew, you're not listening.

When asked to record time and temperature messages for the Australian phone company, she perfected an Australian accent by listening to recordings of Australian speakers.

When listening to pitches with vibrato, there is evidence that humans perceive the mean frequency as the center of the pitch.

When listening to the illusion over headphones, most right-handers hear a melody corresponding to the higher tones as on the right and a melody corresponding to the lower tones as on the left.

When the station's power increased to 50, 000 watts, its listening area increased accordingly.

When accepting his Tony Award for Curtains, Pierce thanked " my partner, Brian, because it's 24 years of listening to your damn notes — that's why I'm up here tonight.

When listening to lungs, breath sounds such as wheezes, crepitations and crackles are identified.

: When the Rhodian envoys arrived in Rome the Senate, after listening to their address, deferred its answer.

When the PBS Descriptive Video Service is not running, viewers on DirecTV hear the programming and hourly station IDs of WSVH / WWIO when listening to the second audio program (" Spanish " selected with green button ) of GPB on the standard-definition feed.

When he was 11, the station changed its format to country, and he began listening to artists such as Garth Brooks, Joe Diffie, George Strait and Randy Travis, who immediately caught his interest .“ There ’ s not another genre that better reflects situations in my life ,” Josh said.

When Eike reveals his presence in an effort to stop young Hugo from listening, the older version panics and tries to escape up the stairs.

When WOOD-FM dropped its easy listening format in 1992, WYXX adopted the format along with the call letters WKEZ.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When a lady chanced to soil a pair of evening slippers, Brigadier Bauer was dispatched to Paris for replacements.

When we went for our walks Lilly's brother would come along every once in a while.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.