Example sentences of "[noun sg] watching [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chola and Mina were at the edge of the roof watching the stream of men as they poured from the village . |
| 2 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 3 | You stood in the dark watching the glow and the flare of fireworks , and it never occurred to the other people to invite you in , and you could n't ask . |
| 4 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 5 | Moran stood with Rose in the doorway watching the car drive away . |
| 6 | Chila Kumari Burman ‘ Fly Girl Watching The World ’ , mixed media |
| 7 | Just dial HOL 3434 , and you are put through to ‘ a very special weather expert watching a radar screen ’ . |
| 8 | A section of the intelligentsia watching the development , however , were less than enthusiastic about this appearance of liberalism , being well aware of the cyclical pattern of development in China . |
| 9 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 10 | We hope that when you 're at home watching the show it all looks like a relaxed , late evening chat — at least , that 's how it 's meant to come across . |
| 11 | But Jan said it was better working than sitting at home watching the dust settle , even if it was working with a bunch of loonies . |
| 12 | Ruth was seated at a window watching the storm . |
| 13 | The chief superintendent stood by the window watching the descent of the autumn sun through a cobweb of grey cloud , his hands in the pockets of his trousers , which , Blanche noticed , were always slightly too tight . |
| 14 | While waiting for the kettle to boil , she stood at the window watching the rain . |
| 15 | Marsha Hunt ( author of the hugely likeable Joy ) has a tiny black child watching the rape and murder of his mother , herself the product of an unbalanced relationship between a woman and her owner . |
| 16 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 17 | The rest of the day followed predictably — Len 's breakfast , seeing him off to work , cleaning the small , semi-detached house they were steadily paying for , looking after the baby , making Len 's evening meal , sitting by the fire in the evening watching the telly , before they went to bed … |
| 18 | Alexei followed the direction of his father 's gaze , and saw that Hulagu and Kaidu were edging gradually to the front of the group watching the smith . |
| 19 | Jack was in the staff-room watching the programme live with Bob when he heard the racket in Reception . |
| 20 | And we seem to be at the moment watching the dismantling and the decline of the National Health Service . |
| 21 | Early one morning , in the merry month of May , I stood in this dining room watching a group of climbers from all over the world being introduced to The Great Tradition . |
| 22 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |
| 23 | But what were NME readers doing watching a pile of shite like that anyway ? — IM |
| 24 | They stood beneath the trees for a while watching the game . |
| 25 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 26 | Have fun watching the dawn . |
| 27 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 28 | Benjamin leaned against a wall watching a butcher at the far end of the yard hack a haunch of beef into huge , steaming slabs , the blood pouring like red streams over the rough-hewn carving block . |
| 29 | There 's nothing else to do anyway except spend all day watching the telly . ’ |
| 30 | We 'd be sitting or standing watching the traffic go by , Dawn alternately flapping about desperately trying to get away and perching on my glove letting me stroke and soothe her . |