Example sentences of "[verb] been watching the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 2 | Her mother must have been watching the quayside from her terrace , Caroline realised with a jolt . |
| 3 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 4 | Together with other members of the medical team and the accident prevention team , Rachel had been watching the video of a recent casualty faking that they had staged at OBEX Aircraft Corporation . |
| 5 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Venus , Ah think , ’ Ward said , and I realised he , too , had been watching the spectacle in absolute silence . |
| 8 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
| 9 | Jimmy had been watching the race from his deckchair . |
| 10 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 11 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 12 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 13 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 14 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gary Tritton , chief interest rate swap trader , had been watching the Bank of England 's £800m tap issue , the first ever in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 18 | Because I 've been watching the front of your house long enough to know . |
| 19 | European leaders have been watching the turmoil over Europe in the Tory Party with increasing alarm . |