Example sentences of "watch them [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |
| 2 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 3 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 4 | They watched them turn towards the house . |
| 5 | He watched them walk towards the car . |
| 6 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 7 | As she watched them disappear into the distance she shivered with the chill of her own isolation . |
| 8 | An impressive feature of the early post-war Palace sides was the triumvirate of Alderson in goal , Little and Ernie Rhodes at full-back , and those who watched them play for the Palace will tell you of an understanding between them that bordered on the uncanny . |
| 9 | Lucy watched them going down the lane . |
| 10 | The major watched them walking down the corridor , holding hands . |
| 11 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 12 | Examination had also revealed several hooded eyes in the head , torso and arms ; all connected by a massive circuitry of unexplainable nerves and sinew which , although with no brain to relay messages still saw them , still swivelled and watched them move about the room as they examined it . |
| 13 | It also gave Apple its first opening into the corporate PC market , many companies bought Macintosh systems solely for desktop publishing and then watched them spread throughout the organisation . |
| 14 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 15 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 16 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 17 | And there — how clearly he remembered it suddenly — there , watching them climb into the dark , was the boy , smiling beatifically , his big , dark eyes filled with wonder . |