Perhaps he thinks his mother never listened to his call.

To all of which conversation her mother listened with the greatest satisfaction.

"My mother would never listen to me when I urged her to do this," he said.

But my husband's mother does not listen when I try to explain.

My mother listened, but she couldn't make out what Ben was saying over the flush of our toilet.

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

Her mother listened and said, "Then why'd you write that book?"

My mother wasn't listening to any of the conversation.

My mother would not even listen to the records I made back in those days because of the language we used.

He continues to talk, but neither my mother nor I listen.