The cop watched with the phone to his ear while talking to someone I assumed was a secretary.

The cops had been watching the intersection for people to run tue stop sign.

I went to your house first but the cops were watching it.

Can't we just get the cops to watch her?

The cop watched her walk toward the patrol car and he got out too.

The cops will be watching her all the time.

But the cops I called are just standing there and watching them.

And anyway, the cops were watching all the roads.

Who knew how many cops, by now, were watching her four-footed progress?

The cops were watching the office a little too closely after that, forcing us to settle for tapping her home phone instead.