Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been watching the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've been watching the front of your house long enough to know . |
| 2 | Eye to the crack in the door , Jezrael saw the girl 's own guilt palm the cuber as though she 'd been watching the security scanner all along . |
| 3 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 4 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
| 5 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 6 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 7 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 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 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 14 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |