Example sentences of "had been watching the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Together with other members of the medical team and the accident prevention team , Rachel had been watching the video of a recent casualty faking that they had staged at OBEX Aircraft Corporation . |
2 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Venus , Ah think , ’ Ward said , and I realised he , too , had been watching the spectacle in absolute silence . |
5 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
6 | Jimmy had been watching the race from his deckchair . |
7 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
8 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
9 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
10 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
11 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
12 | Whitlock , who had been watching the entrance from the comfort of an armchair for the past ten minutes , got to his feet and shook her extended hand . |
13 | Gary Tritton , chief interest rate swap trader , had been watching the Bank of England 's £800m tap issue , the first ever in the middle of the night . |
14 | As a result , Mackensen was freed to attack the northern region of Serbia ; and Bulgaria , which had been watching the fortunes of war , anxious to identify the winning side , joined the Central Powers on 6 September 1915 . |