Example sentences of "was watching the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car , standing just behind Emil , Cathy and Oliver . |
| 2 | She was watching the door when on the stroke of two the tall Czechoslovakian came striding into the hotel . |
| 3 | He was watching the storm again … and remembering . |
| 4 | Reclining on the couch beside the long , gauze-veiled windows , Salaquin Mandru was watching the performance from heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was watching the Sumo wrestling on Channel 4 the other night and it occurred to me that perhaps , at last , I 'd found my sport . |
| 7 | He was watching the man with the revolver , watching and waiting . |
| 8 | Libby was watching the man 's face . |
| 9 | She was watching the couple very carefully , and , when they started out together down the passage towards the High Street , she followed them . |
| 10 | He was watching the Luggage . |
| 11 | She was watching the battle with desperate , tear-bright eyes . |
| 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 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 14 | He was watching the ball , ’ he claimed . |
| 15 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 16 | He was watching the road in the ruddy light . |
| 17 | I know because I 've tried it as well , and I would say it was a large contributing factor to a breakdown of understanding , because at this point I was watching the deterioration of the relationship between Tony DeFries and David . |
| 18 | By stumps on the second day Australia were 36 for 1 ( Taylor 18 , Boon 11 ) , and on Day 3 the pair took their stand to 221 , only 15 short of Australia 's best against India , by Sid Barnes and Don Bradman ( who was watching the play from the committee-room ) in 1947–48 . |
| 19 | I was playing my cousin and my cousin was watching the film . |
| 20 | He was watching the video with his project engineer , Englishman Stephen Trutch , when he spotted the Doncaster Town Moor golf course inside the racecourse . |
| 21 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 22 | I was watching the ice hockey on here last night , last night , the and Czechoslovakia one and a Canadian guy scored a goal and the announcer said they 'll be celebrating that in his home in Canada if they 're watching , listen I bet they are ! |
| 23 | Josie was watching the space where the woman had been . |
| 24 | He was watching the hotel , sitting there like he 'd always been there . |
| 25 | He was standing on the hillside and he too was watching the sun go down . |
| 26 | It was watching the Ship with a strange , rapt expression . |
| 27 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |
| 28 | I think he was watching the chateau for days and followed us down to the village . ’ |
| 29 | Like millions of Americans I was watching the debate on television and , like millions of Americans , I leapt out of my seat yelling something like : ‘ I ca n't believe he said that … |
| 30 | Harvey was watching the plane too . |