Example sentences of "[was/were] watch they " in BNC.

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1 Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts .
2 Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest .
3 It was also beginning to worry Coleman that while he and the whole NARCOG apparatus of government agents and informants were watching the Syrians , Syrian agents and probably many of the same informants were watching them .
4 Hugh was aware that a small crowd of fishwives , shellfish diggers and freelance gawpers were watching them with interest .
5 By this time , the Egyptian army had entered southern Palestine but Abu Khadra was to watch them , only a few days later , retreating along the beach towards Sinai .
6 Simon glanced round at Tony , the owner 's son , who had stopped reading his comic and was watching them both , curiously .
7 And I was watching them , and I got an erection I remember .
8 One of the humans was watching them .
9 Shrub was watching them carefully .
10 She was watching them over the rim of the glass , looking from one to the other of their faces , trying to follow their too rapid talk .
11 Sarah was watching them .
12 He glanced across at her : she had stopped playing and was watching them , and the resemblance of her to Martha was so strong that all the old bitterness and resentment flooded suddenly back .
13 The man was watching them from a bedroom window , the bat visible .
14 She wished someone was watching them , to appreciate them , or that she herself was watching them , Finn kissing this black-haired young girl , from a bush a hundred yards away .
15 She wished someone was watching them , to appreciate them , or that she herself was watching them , Finn kissing this black-haired young girl , from a bush a hundred yards away .
16 Bathsheba was watching them carefully to make sure that the sheep were not injured , and that all the wool was cut off .
17 Glancing back over her shoulder as she stepped out into the pounding heat of the afternoon , she saw that Stephanie Marsa was watching them go .
18 When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows .
19 Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs .
20 Across the wide pavement , man was watching them .
21 He was watching them to see which way they would go .
22 Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table .
23 She had put her hands before her face , and by now the whole room was watching them , although most could not hear what was being said .
24 The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again .
25 Patrick was watching them play the 7th , which they had reached at 11.45 , when Richie 's voice crackled on the radio .
26 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
27 You know , I was watching them do other people 's and my Aunty Gwendoline was with me and she said it 's said that it 's .
28 You did n't do very well over the weekend , did you , 'cos I was watching them and they did n't do that well .
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