Example sentences of "have been watching the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclaren has been watching the story unfold . |
| 2 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 3 | Six months ago six major E C Health and Safety Directives came into effect covering workplace safety , machinery , protective equipment , manual handling , work with computers and word processors , they 've built on a framework directive giving workers new rights to consultation and the right to stop the job and the union has been watching the government and the H S E and me as well , in their attempts to water down the requirements of these directives and we might well lodge a formal complaint with Brussels that could land the Tories in Europe 's Court of Justice . |
| 4 | Gordon Jackson , a school governor has been watching the meeting — for his school the outcome is crucial . |
| 5 | Dennis has been watching the action . |
| 6 | Keith Daniell has been watching the action there . |
| 7 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her mother must have been watching the quayside from her terrace , Caroline realised with a jolt . |
| 10 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had been watching the legion of black ants moving along the plain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Venus , Ah think , ’ Ward said , and I realised he , too , had been watching the spectacle in absolute silence . |
| 17 | She had been watching the tumble-drier for ages and still her clothes were n't quite dry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 20 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 21 | Jimmy had been watching the race from his deckchair . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 25 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 26 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 27 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 28 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 29 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 30 | 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 . |