Example sentences of "[art] [noun] watch a " in BNC.

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1 A practical example was illustrated at Castlebrae High School , where the prince watched a car maintenance class .
2 In line with this principle , she ignored the Gorbachev visit and went to the cinema to watch a film that had been banned for 20 years , since it deals with the Russian invasion of 1945 .
3 He looked out of the window to watch a rowing boat floundering by with novice crew .
4 The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video .
5 Trent lay on the surface watching a barracuda .
6 Nor can his late nights : he often sits till three in the morning watching a film on TV .
7 Then the woman watched a gunman fire single bullets , one by one , into the back of their heads .
8 Murray also arranged for the players to watch a video of the game on the coach on the way to Stockport .
9 The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television .
10 Elena will be at the centre to watch a football tournament , hear music from Stokesley School Band , see displays by the local police and fire services and enjoy various stalls and sideshows .
11 His predecessor had been fired at Vic 's insistence just before Christmas when , returning unexpectedly to the factory at night , he found the man watching a portable TV instead of the video monitors he was paid to watch .
12 For most of the first session the pupils watched a video about living in Britain during the war and looked through printed resources .
13 The trainee watches a video clip of a client needing savings advice , and can retrieve files and ask questions which are answered by the client .
14 Sweet , cool morning air swept in as he settled in a chair by the balcony to watch a new day begin on the Paris street below .
15 I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff .
16 She was sitting in a cinema watching a film .
17 The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment .
18 It 's not a crime to watch a rival soap .
19 It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences .
20 IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom .
21 She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole .
22 On one occasion , a group watched a prayer meeting held in Martyr 's Square in Tripoli : row upon row of men stood before long carpets spread on the tarmac and performed their prayers : it was an impressive sight .
23 Think of at least two different contexts in which the use of each of the following might become symbolic : a book a goblet a photograph a necklace a fob watch a dried flower .
24 Beats International could be found there almost every night watching a strange world go by .
25 Benjamin leaned against a wall watching a butcher at the far end of the yard hack a haunch of beef into huge , steaming slabs , the blood pouring like red streams over the rough-hewn carving block .
26 In this dream I was standing by a river watching a man in swimming trunks caught in the downward surge of a waterfall or weir .
27 Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship .
28 Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally .
29 Moore stared into the cruel eyes , like a bird watching a cat .
30 The following day we spent an hour watching a barge crane lift an H-shaped concrete frame from the bottom of the harbour .
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