Example sentences of "[verb] to watch [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want to watch out for the lorries . |
| 2 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 3 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 4 | Got to watch out for damp in these old places . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No , but you 've got to be serious , Joe , you 've got to watch out for Blackbeard . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , it 's the ones that have a sharp look to them that you 've got to watch out for . |
| 7 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 8 | Of course , we 'll have to watch out for les flics . " |
| 9 | It 's something we got to watch out for . |
| 10 | There 's a new pair of swans on the Ryeford canal now … residents are pledged to watch out for them |
| 11 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 12 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 13 | He said to watch out for imagination . |
| 14 | Readers are then advised to watch out for transfers between balance sheet and p&l account to identify cases where companies have enhanced profits at the expense of their balance sheets . |
| 15 | In East Africa , travellers were advised to watch out for the variety of indigenous ‘ types ’ to be seen at railway stations , from the Islamic , partly Arabized , Swahili of the coast , to the Kamba and Kikuyu of the interior , and then , a special treat , the magnificent Masai , bearing their shields and spears in a sadly peaceable demonstration of subjection , before reaching the Nilotic peoples of the shore of Lake Victoria . |
| 16 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 17 | Positional isomerism is very obvious the only thing you have to watch out for , if the give you structural formulae especially multi-choice papers they 're buggers they are when they , when they do this sometimes ! |
| 18 | I put on , on large number of them more editing is needed I , I think probably now going back , oh change of tenses obviously something you have to watch out for . |
| 19 | when you have to watch out for the differences |
| 20 | One pairing to watch out for is David Hudd and Nick Irens and their new quoted vehicle , Vardon . |