Example sentences of "watched [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement .
2 I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay .
3 He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work .
4 I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl .
5 I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery .
6 The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things .
7 As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor .
8 She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard .
9 She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine .
10 He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room .
11 Sabrina watched him disappear back into the booth .
12 With a bright flicker of satisfaction , she watched him slide down into the water , his large body making a flurry of waves ripple the surface .
13 As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below .
14 Horowitz watched it turn on to the road and vanish .
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