Everyone at the office was talking about it when her father wasn't listening.

"My father and I listened together in the living room," he said.

My father listened to him and said, no, that's not the right way to think about it.

My father always listened to the radio and regularly to sport.

There was a time, she said, when father, mother and child would listen to the same music in the car.

His father believed him or, at the very least, was listening.

"Your father is a great man, listen to him and learn."

Or perhaps he tried, and your father would not listen to him.

Pappy and my father would not listen to the news.

Lang tried to explain himself, but his father wouldn't listen.