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Example sentences of "and watch the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A child , allowed to stay up and watch the ball 's beginning , stared wide-eyed from a balcony , while the Countess tapped her stick on the parquet floor in time to the music .
2	There was a bench , fashioned out of a fallen tree trunk ; the weather was mild enough to sit and watch the river .
3	He was too feeble to leave his room now , but Viktor had the window specially made so he could sit and watch the river .
4	Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot .
5	Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her .
6	You finish your orange juice and we 'll go and watch the rest of the race .
7	Let's go and watch the rest of the race .
8	It is a good place to sit and watch the sun go down .
9	I can sit back and watch the day go by , and when the float dips down in the water I know there 's a fish pulling at the line .
10	He was calling to Juliet in the audience , telling her to wake up and watch the play .
11	Chief Executive says all they could do was to stand and watch the water getting higher .
12	Right we 'll let these lot go and we 'll go and watch the news if you 're watching Star Trek at six .
13	Let's go and watch the news .
14	If Dickens could come back and watch the debate , he would see that most of us are dwelling on the surface of the problem , while beneath the surface something is wrong in England and Wales .
15	‘ I suppose some people must have been annoyed , but most tended to stop and watch the filming instead , ’ Mrs Shapland said .
16	I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again .
17	So she could knit and watch the television , knit and read , she had no need to follow the needles .
18	You just like to sit and watch the television ?
19	Usually Pete liked to look down and watch the traffic from the window in the living room but today he bobbed about in the kitchen until Mum filled the basin with hot soapy water and scrubbed the driving wheel clean .
20	I 'm gon na go and watch the telly !
21	‘ Afterwards , you can sit back and watch the investment grow handsomely , before you offer it out to the highest bidder and make a killing .
22	Sharpe , his message in safe hands , was free to return and watch the French .
23	When you have a course that works , you do n't sit back and watch the grass grow — you set to work to make it even better .
24	We 'll stay in and watch the cup final
25	The man in the shadows waved something green and glistening , and the waft of entrails touched the cat 's sensitive nostrils and made it sit up and watch the stranger .
26	If , however , a colleague has offered to go along and watch the lesson for you , it may well help if you underline the type of general information you would like back in addition to the notes on the lesson .
27	She 'd have a fag with her coffee , and I 'd sit and watch the smoke making patterns in the air , and it 'd be quiet and it 'd be just her and me .
28	Surely the head of DoE Road Safety and Government should sit down and watch the advert for Autoglass to realise the danger of this .
29	‘ Such a long time ! ’ she gasped in his ear as they hugged each other tightly , the dogs retiring a respectful distance to sit and watch the homecoming with tails swishing excitedly over the gravel .
30	The cafe/terrace is an ideal place to relax and watch the world go by , and its a la carte restaurant has excellent food and is well known amongst the local residents .