Sentence examples for had watched for from inspiring English sources

He had watched for years as his patients' suffering worsened with the bottoming out of the state's tobacco, textile and furniture industries.

They had watched for too long as their struggling stars failed to produce, and it was time to give other players an opportunity.

The next time he ran into her, in front of her house (he had watched for her), she screamed, Oscar, querido!

During the 2008 election, I remember listening incredulously to focus groups as swing voters would repeatedly say about a man they had watched for two years, "I don't know who he is".

Mr. Sharif, an employee of Libya's National Investment Company, said he had watched for years as others were promoted over him because he refused to join the Qaddafi political machine and its various "revolutionary committees".

On "Home Transformations," a title that could be applied to nearly every program I had watched for the previous 15 hours, many things were transformed, none of them currently available to my short-term memory.

"We have watched for years as jobs have left America for other countries," he said.

"We've watched for two years now, and what have we seen?

"This is an issue we have watched for a long time," he said.

These are the same characters that we've watched for years.

Student David Hatton, of Chorlton, has watched for as long as he can remember.