Example sentences of "[pers pn] had 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 She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain .
3 She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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 He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice .
8 On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window .
9 For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope .
10 And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too .
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