watch over someone

Examples of watched

watched

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Interestingly, when we watched the listenersubjects making their decisions, we noted that they made them at similar points in the tape.
And, as a culmination to these studies, they watched the film version of the opera with rapt attention.
The reporter watched the lawyers of the criminals who was speaking to the judge.
She then looks at her sleeping husband, and compares his face to the moon she has just watched.
I could have watched for a week ' ' (769).
One father returned three times to the problem of monitoring the videos his son watched.
Of course, once a balloon had taken off and reached a certain point in the sky, it became impossible to control who watched.
They were divided into small groups with each class 'being watched over by some lady member of the committee'.
This study asked some subjects, who watched only the visual presentation, to rate the violinists' attractiveness regarding dress and stage behaviour.
Therefore, the analysis concentrates on hours of television watched during a working week, and the number of times television news was watched during the week.
He shared his father's desperation, the desperation of a small man who watched big producers monopolize the state patents and premiums that eluded him.
At 8:40 am, watched by reporters from various news media, the plane started its engine and began slowly to move toward the runway.
The passage of records to and from the bookhouse was closely watched.
This finding, from 1998, contrasted with the finding of a similar 1992 survey that readers watched television mainly for entertainment.
They watched what other women did, and used this to gauge how appropriate or inappropriate their appearance might have become.
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