Example sentences of "and watch [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been content to stand by and watch him dig his own hole with a shovel . |
| 2 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 3 | She hoped that the child to whom this home belonged would let her stay and watch him playing . |
| 4 | I 'd skirt around the light cast from the windows and sometimes I 'd sit and watch her to see if she would do anything interesting . |
| 5 | I could n't just sit and watch them dying . ’ |
| 6 | Up at the base , there was a place by the recruiting office with seats and a slot screen , you could stand and watch them do training flights , all unassisted stuff . |
| 7 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
| 8 | I said , ‘ You know I have to stand here and watch you stop breathing if we do that , and as a matter of fact , you 'll gasp for air , and you 'll be watching us , and you 'll see us go away … ’ |
| 9 | Yes it 's alright , it 's time go , she want 's to come and watch you go . |
| 10 | ‘ Are n't you going to stay and watch us win the prize ? ’ |
| 11 | Let's go down and watch it go out . |
| 12 | Realizing he was too far away to save his prized possession , the governor could only stand and watch it fall , speechless with anger . |
| 13 | ‘ Get across to the bay , and watch what happens , ’ said Tobie . |
| 14 | He told Beattie to climb as high as he could and watch what happened , but not to join in the fighting . |
| 15 | I dress in the red blouse and black skirt , and watch myself do a twirl in the mirror . |
| 16 | You can tell them to fire the building and they 'll do it and watch themselves burn . |
| 17 | and watch them gulp , sick with nostalgia for it . |
| 18 | If you can find out when they feed you will be able to take off the cover at that time and watch them feeding . |
| 19 | Just lob shells into the middle of the enemy 's advance and watch them die . |
| 20 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 21 | The southern African countries can salt away their ivory stocks in the bank until the day trade resumes , and watch them increase in value . |
| 22 | Take then into the bath and watch them fall apart ! |
| 23 | I turn and watch them go . |
| 24 | It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here . |
| 25 | All they could do was watch and wait , trigger off several fuses and watch them burn until one of them , hopefully , ran its full course . |
| 26 | Mm and there was a verandah there so , if I did n't go out , you know , I could always sit on the verandah and watch them surfing . |
| 27 | You can vote for our opponents , and watch them take Britain back to the 1970s . |
| 28 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |
| 29 | ‘ After chapel we used always to go down there and watch them battle it out , ’ he says . |
| 30 | them on the floor and watch them shatter into natural pieces , di dum di dum di dum , in the absence of such a direct technique , more indirecti more indirect alternatives must b must suffice . |