Example sentences of "and watch he " in BNC.

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1 She hoped that the child to whom this home belonged would let her stay and watch him playing .
2 ‘ Can we stay and watch him being moved onto the trolley ? ’
3 But I ca n't just sit here and watch him .
4 I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better .
5 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 .
6 She was desperate to turn and watch him , to find out what he was doing , defend herself if need be .
7 As I 'm short of a huntsman , might I ask you , Mrs. Stevenson , very kindly to go downwind and watch him away ? ’
8 By just peeping over the tip of the rock she could dress and watch him , too .
9 She had been content to stand by and watch him dig his own hole with a shovel .
10 Oh and you used to let us stop up and watch him , it must of been on at about nine o'clock or something
11 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 .
12 His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award .
13 Some afternoons he would hide with the Bookman above Mr Crangle 's desk and watch him working .
14 Go you to Duart 's room , and watch him and Hector for me .
15 Next day the place is flooded so I do n't get a chance to play with Trevino , just stand on the practice ground and watch him hit balls .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’
18 It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part .
19 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 .
20 I 'd sit with a Coke and some crisps and watch him drink .
21 I stand at the bottom and watch him .
22 She refused , because as she said she had no urge to sit on a draughty hillside and watch him break his miserable neck .
23 I 'll have to come up there one Monday night and watch him play moosh
24 I left Taff at the entrance to the farm and watched him as he continued along the road then , as he clambered up the grass bank and disappeared among the trees , I turned into the farm .
25 Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field .
26 Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats .
27 Panting , trying to stifle the noise of her breathing , she stood in the dark , just inside the right-hand tunnel , and watched him .
28 Alexia stood by and watched him do it .
29 ‘ I see , ’ she smiled , and watched him relax .
30 I sat there and watched him , and I watched the traffic and the shops on the streets we went through .
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