Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been watching [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 10 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 11 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 12 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |