Example sentences of "he had been watching the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 2 | For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn . |
| 3 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 4 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 5 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 6 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 7 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 8 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 9 | He had been watching the expressions that played across her face as she spoke , determination , enthusiasm and simple enjoyment in the challenges presented by her job . |