Example sentences of "watching the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
| 2 | Watching the cuisinières during the early stages , there was no obvious clue as to why anyone should find it necessary to draw a theoretical distinction between male and female chefs . |
| 3 | Next , watching the rudder pedals , increase the amount of rudder by a movement of about one inch forward on the rudder pedal and try again to reduce the speed . |
| 4 | For this reason , in gliders it is important to avoid watching the instruments during nose-down pitching manoeuvres such as stall recoveries and when recovering into normal flight following a cable break during a steep winch launch . |
| 5 | Watching the people she loved most simply being together . |
| 6 | Maybe I 'm an owl , watching the other owls screech down on helpless little mice , but I wo n't forsake my vegetarian principles . |
| 7 | Some karateka can cope with watching the action and measuring up their adversary while others prefer to retire outside the tournament arena to somewhere quiet . |
| 8 | Last week Alan was not in bed at nine o'clock ; he was watching the news with Geraldine . |
| 9 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 10 | He stood silent and still , watching the tragedy of the Poor Girl who was being rejected by the Rich Man . |
| 11 | Watching the characters being bugged on TV monitors , the audience would themselves be made to feel under surveillance . |
| 12 | It was entertaining viewing for Mal Meninga , watching the game with his Canberra colleagues , but the Australian declined a £50,000 offer , made after the game , to rejoin St Helens . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , watching the AX 's fuel gauge fall to empty is a long and tedious vigil . |
| 14 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 15 | We sat there drinking hot chocolate and watching the clouds scrape raggedly past . |
| 16 | ( 'You have to attain a high degree of musical stupidity in order to find watching the beat , or the conductor 's inane face for that matter , easier for the purpose of knowing how or when to play than simply listening to the music , ’ he argued . ) |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | Watching the happy , milling crowd at the conference , one Tory MP muttered : ‘ It 's a good tribal rite , but it does n't have much to do with reality . ’ |
| 19 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 20 | Even the washing hanging from the tenement windows seemed to be fluttering a welcome as we all struggled to our feet , pushing and shoving , as we attempted to get our packs on our backs , at the same time trying to get a clear view of the platform and the hundreds of people watching the train pull in . |
| 21 | Watching the spectacle , one has the weird sensation that the actors really knew all the time that their professions were illusory , and that there was a kind of gigantic tacit conspiracy to pretend . |
| 22 | For the artist , it is certainly worthwhile watching the video 's budget and not spending excessively if at all possible . |
| 23 | And who , sitting in the stalls next to John Hinckley at a matinee of Taxi Driver , would have guessed that their neighbour 's conclusion from watching the film was that , in order to prove his love for Jodie Foster , he must go out and shoot Ronald Reagan ? |
| 24 | One , after watching the first two films , was hunched at the end of a row , asleep and snoring . |
| 25 | I watched his silhouette moving from seat to seat , watching the others , shuffling and sidling closer , sometimes stopping as if uncertain , but then moving again until he was next to someone . |
| 26 | When we got out there were hundreds watching the blaze . |
| 27 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 28 | I walked into the college cinema to find the tutor watching the film on his own . |
| 29 | She had walked down through suburban Summertown , taking her time but without reluctance ; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had , compared to her own shopping street , with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern , never-had-it-so-good façades in challenge to the poverty and squalor , and had failed . |
| 30 | Moran stood with Rose in the doorway watching the car drive away . |