Example sentences of "had been watch the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 3 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 6 | It overlooked the street , it was too hot , and the people on the other side of the wall had been watching the hotel 's cable channel late and loud so that he 'd had to go around and hammer on their door . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 11 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 12 | Jimmy had been watching the race from his deckchair . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 16 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 17 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 18 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 19 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 20 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I du n no , ’ said Masklin , who had been watching the geese speculatively . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No wonder men had been watching the house . |
| 30 | 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 . |