Example sentences of "watch him [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me .
2 On Cable TV , in pirated tapes in bars , you could watch him watching a buddy screw another woman until she had to complain it was all getting just too wild .
3 She had been content to stand by and watch him dig his own hole with a shovel .
4 Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh .
5 The colleagues would watch him to see what impression their words were making .
6 Tess did not watch him go , but continued her walk alone .
7 He 'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams .
8 He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains .
9 She hoped that the child to whom this home belonged would let her stay and watch him playing .
10 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 .
11 His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award .
12 I watch him concentrate on licking the end of a little cigar .
13 When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle !
14 oh watch him done , over there look
15 I watch him flying about .
16 Watch him go through his repertoire of quotes and quips .
17 But Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ It is just a matter of time before Darren explodes — then watch him go . ’
18 ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres .
19 David was urged on by Beth 's insistence that he ‘ talk some sense into the boy , or watch him go from bad to worse ’ .
20 ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King .
21 Half a dozen cutting remarks trembled on the tip of her tongue , but though she longed to hurl them at him , and watch him shrivel , she knew she could n't .
22 You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years .
23 We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water .
24 She refused , because as she said she had no urge to sit on a draughty hillside and watch him break his miserable neck .
25 Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit …
26 When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood .
27 On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here .
28 Some afternoons he would hide with the Bookman above Mr Crangle 's desk and watch him working .
29 we watch him knit
30 As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine .
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