Example sentences of "[noun] was watching the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 2 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 3 | Reclining on the couch beside the long , gauze-veiled windows , Salaquin Mandru was watching the performance from heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 4 | Fenella was watching the giants , feeling cold inside at the way in which they all kept glancing slyly in her direction . |
| 5 | Josie was watching the space where the woman had been . |
| 6 | In fact , Abercrombie was watching the start of the first Lebanese civil war , itself the preliminary act in the catastrophe that would tear Lebanon to pieces . |
| 7 | The Robemaker was watching the slaves . |
| 8 | I was playing my cousin and my cousin was watching the film . |
| 9 | Libby was watching the man 's face . |
| 10 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |
| 11 | Jazz was watching the television . |
| 12 | Patrick was watching the gunman 's face when Tom Rooney had mentioned the Big Fellow 's name , and was surprised to see the reaction it brought . |
| 13 | The bearded man was in the Captain 's cabin , and the young man in the black shirt was watching the other passengers . |
| 14 | Mrs. Favor was watching the McLaren girl , staring right at her , so I had a chance to look at Mrs. Favor . |
| 15 | Harvey was watching the plane too . |
| 16 | Sarah was watching the chimneysweeps with a rapt expression , and holding the hands of two small boys , while one a bit older had to be reprimanded for trying to climb a tree . |
| 17 | The king of Yodie Bodie was watching the latest U2 full length video , which features various video remixes , when suddenly , during the clip for ‘ Nothing But The Real Thing ’ — which features cut-ups of sentences interspersed with the action — he thought , hang on a mo' this is all looking mighty familiar . |
| 18 | His mother was watching the weather forecast on television when he let himself into the house . |
| 19 | Charlotte was watching the two policemen as Ursula replied . |