Example sentences of "he was watching the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Alan was not in bed at nine o'clock ; he was watching the news with Geraldine . |
| 2 | ‘ With the haughty air of a general in charge of manoeuvres he was watching the taxis streaming past [ there was no petrol rationing until April 1917 ] . |
| 3 | He was watching the video with his project engineer , Englishman Stephen Trutch , when he spotted the Doncaster Town Moor golf course inside the racecourse . |
| 4 | He was watching the Headmistress with an exceedingly wary eye and he kept edging farther and farther away from her with little shuffles of his feet , rather as a rat might edge away from a terrier that is watching it from across the room . |
| 5 | He was watching the circling helicopters . |
| 6 | He was watching the man with the revolver , watching and waiting . |
| 7 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 8 | He was watching the storm again … and remembering . |
| 9 | He was watching the road in the ruddy light . |
| 10 | He was watching the Luggage . |
| 11 | He was watching the end of the news on the telly . |
| 12 | I think he was watching the chateau for days and followed us down to the village . ’ |
| 13 | He was watching the hotel , sitting there like he 'd always been there . |
| 14 | He was watching the ball , ’ he claimed . |