Example sentences of "[pron] watched him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the sitting-room window I watched him stride out along Fernhill Walk , every so often the street lamps showing him in relief as his bulky figure emerged from the shadows . |
| 2 | Like other children , I watched him propel his chair up the chapel path , where he would wait in the porch till the beginning of the first hymn , then come just inside the door for the service . |
| 3 | I knew what he was thinking , as I watched him realising this . |
| 4 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 5 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 6 | I watched him die . |
| 7 | I watched him fetch me coal this morning and made sure he filled the bleeding bag . |
| 8 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time you went , ’ I said as I watched him go but I did n't mean it . |
| 10 | I watched him go round and , as it was my first year in the sport , I thought — so this is what FI is like , eh ? |
| 11 | I watched him go out , his hands in his pockets . |
| 12 | I watched him go in by his own back door and I hurried on home . |
| 13 | And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall ! |
| 14 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 15 | I watched him drive effortlessly down the middle . |
| 16 | I watched him walk towards Daffodil , who was waving to him vigorously , and take the place saved by her handbag . |
| 17 | I watched him walk away . |
| 18 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
| 19 | I watched him arrive and disappear into the black shadows . |
| 20 | I watched him growing out of me . |
| 21 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 22 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I watched him in and I watched him leave . |
| 24 | He did n't look back and I watched him cross the road , climb a wall and trail away across the fields towards the river . |
| 25 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 26 | ‘ I watched him working out his comedy and immediately recognized a considerable talent . |
| 27 | I watched him put something in the captain 's hand . |
| 28 | ‘ I watched him play against Liverpool and he scored a fine goal and did not look far short of his true form . ’ |
| 29 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 30 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |