Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] watch [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 2 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 3 | As a result , Mackensen was freed to attack the northern region of Serbia ; and Bulgaria , which had been watching the fortunes of war , anxious to identify the winning side , joined the Central Powers on 6 September 1915 . |
| 4 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 5 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
| 6 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 7 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 8 | When the film is complete and the company has pulled out , he stays behind and watches with awe as the local Peruvian Indians — who had been watching the film being made — begin to re-enact it . |
| 9 | Whitlock , who had been watching the entrance from the comfort of an armchair for the past ten minutes , got to his feet and shook her extended hand . |
| 10 | ‘ I du n no , ’ said Masklin , who had been watching the geese speculatively . |
| 11 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Crowe , who had been watching the carnage unfold from the other end with increasing horror , unfurled some strokes of class in an attempt to ease the situation . |
| 13 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 14 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 15 | For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn . |
| 16 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 17 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 18 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 19 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 20 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 21 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 22 | He had been watching the expressions that played across her face as she spoke , determination , enthusiasm and simple enjoyment in the challenges presented by her job . |