Example sentences of "watch [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must watch for underhand dealings , if not deception , in early April and July . |
| 2 | I regret the delay that has already occurred and shall watch with great interest the manner in which the Labour party mobilises its forces to support that measure . |
| 3 | I think what I w ill do is wait and watch until late afternoon . |
| 4 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 5 | The rear gunner loosed off a round of deadliness in the general direction of the fighter , but , it seemed , he was not the target and Biggins could only watch in morbid fascination as his wing man went down in flames . |
| 6 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 7 | Watch for new trousers made by a new manufacturer , and also new shirt designs printed onto in-house created sweatshirts [ rather then just whacking the design onto a Hanes job ] . |
| 8 | The simplest way to program the NSA 's computers at Morwenstow and Menwith Hill is to have them watch for specific names , addresses , telephone and telex numbers , as in the case of Kinnock 's call to Turnbull . |
| 9 | Watch for changing payment habits . |
| 10 | * Pay particular attention to the relationship between the subject and the verb in a sentence : check agreement , watch for unrelated participles , and remove intervening commas as necessary ( see pp. 122 – 4 ) . |
| 11 | Near the coast , watch for large wind changes due to sea breezes . |
| 12 | Watch for tell-tale body language and gestures and give-away phrases in someone 's response . |
| 13 | As we continue our lesson , I manage to keep my speed down , keep my foot off the clutch except when changing gear , take heed of the signs — well , most of them — and watch for potential hazards both near and far . |
| 14 | Israeli soldiers watch with bored hostility . |
| 15 | In a corner of the great library Arlott would gleefully construe his winners and losers , shed a tear as Leo Harrison or Barry Reed presented an ornamented mug as token of thanks , serve the unchanging banquet of watercress soup and venison , then watch with avuncular pride as the best arms in Hampshire cricket , Reed or Harrison , laid low the last coconuts of Alresford Fair , the midnight lights now glowing . |
| 16 | And above all , watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places . |
| 17 | The Electrician of January 1st 1896 recorded : ‘ The enterprise at Blackpool will be watched with great interest . |
| 18 | I will not interfere with Dinah 's career on the stage ; I have watched with great pleasure her performances as Lady Teazle and the other young lady in The Rivals ; and I know , that |
| 19 | The movements were watched with keen interest by the guests of the Watch Committee . |
| 20 | In fact , their departure was watched with quiet satisfaction by a surprising number of Rockford residents from behind curtains and various vantage points . |
| 21 | Like the British , the Danes have watched with growing alarm as the institutions of the EEC have begun to take control of matters far beyond what was thought to be their original remit . |
| 22 | Sharron Davies ' bid to win the 400 metres individual medley title for a record sixth time will be watched with added interest now that she has been given the opportunity to swim the event in Barcelona next month . |
| 23 | For the uninitiated , you place your breast on a breast-high slab of ice-cold metal and then watch in deep disbelief as a second slab of ice-cold metal descends onto the breast , elongating it into a sort of Bourbon biscuit shape . |
| 24 | ‘ Taylor told me he would have me watched in future games . |
| 25 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 26 | Despite this Huddersfield went to the top for one week in October , until a 1–1 draw at Liverpool , watched by prime minister Stanley Baldwin on his first visit to a football match . |
| 27 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 28 | The consequences of this activity will be far-reaching and are being watched by other countries with interest , since the Panel is the first creation of its kind in the world . |
| 29 | On the other side of the Square , attracting a much larger crowd , a fire-eater was doing his thing watched by amazed children as he threw his head back and spewed flame a couple of yards into the air . |
| 30 | THREE vodka-swigging Scots jumped naked into a pool — watched by horrified diners in a gourmet restaurant . |