Example sentences of "was watch the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews . |
| 2 | Last week Alan was not in bed at nine o'clock ; he was watching the news with Geraldine . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cilla looked on , grinning as if she was watching the perfect Blind Date union . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jazz was watching the television . |
| 9 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 10 | Colin Jackson , with whom I was fairly close by now , was watching the meeting with some athletes on warm-weather training in Portugal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car , standing just behind Emil , Cathy and Oliver . |
| 13 | It was very hot in the scout hut where I was watching the preparations , so the clay was constantly being sprayed to prevent it drying out . |
| 14 | He was watching the video with his project engineer , Englishman Stephen Trutch , when he spotted the Doncaster Town Moor golf course inside the racecourse . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope she 's better at screwing than polo , ’ hissed Perdita , who , like a cat waiting to spring , was watching the umpire 's hand . |
| 16 | She was watching the show at her mother 's home . |
| 17 | She fell silent for a moment and I saw she was watching the long heaving waves slip past our flanks . |
| 18 | It was watching the Ship with a strange , rapt expression . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh yes , I was watching the six o'clock news . |
| 21 | The Substitute had turned from the window and was watching the Captain curiously . |
| 22 | He was watching the circling helicopters . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was watching the man with the revolver , watching and waiting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No , I was watching the watchers . |
| 27 | The woman I 'm staying with comes from a mining family , and as I was watching the news I heard the ironing board creaking in the kitchen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 30 | She was watching the battle with desperate , tear-bright eyes . |