Example sentences of "he watched the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With weary patience he watched the room 's familiar objects assume slow , grey shapes . |
| 2 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 3 | He watched the man narrowly , not caring for the wariness of his eyes and the way his hands had begun to twitch . |
| 4 | He watched the girl retreat into the Olive and Dove , the moonlight casting her shadow black , straight and attenuated . |
| 5 | After the funeral Charles retreated to Balmoral , where he watched the BBC obituary of Mountbatten over and over again , and walked the lonely moors . |
| 6 | Through the glass in front , he watched the greying head of Marty with the topped end of a cigarette behind his left ear . |
| 7 | He watched the plane release the glider and the glider shoot up silently above him . |
| 8 | He watched the couples after dark ; |
| 9 | He watched the harnessed pair being lifted up . |
| 10 | Requiem for a monk , Trent thought as he watched the cocaine-addicted mestizo squatting on the cabin top . |
| 11 | He watched the girl for a minute before calling to her to bring their heading a little to port . |
| 12 | He watched the first squall race towards them , the rain compressed into a curtain above the white line of wave caps . |
| 13 | He accepted , as he watched the anger rekindle her eyes , that she felt he was blackmailing her . |
| 14 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 15 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 16 | Just to see what it would feel like , Boy tried hard to copy this attitude during the film he watched the next afternoon . |
| 17 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 18 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 19 | He watched the globules of sweat as they oozed from his pores then ran in countless little rivers down his brown skin . |
| 20 | He watched the woman 's eyes widen in surprise . |
| 21 | He watched the Prior 's sallow face flush . |
| 22 | He watched the scenes and the men change and slow motion cum fly through the air . |
| 23 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 24 | He watched the bowl , and seized it , and then , meeting the physician 's eyes , took the spoon and fed himself , slowly . |
| 25 | He watched the screen , struggled to get the frame-hold to work , all the while keeping an eye on the scene in the operating theatre . |
| 26 | He watched the moon rise through his binoculars . |
| 27 | He watched the old man fit another piece of bait on his line and flick the hook backhanded through the air . |
| 28 | He watched the old man as he carefully sniffed the wine , sipped it , rolled it around his palate . |
| 29 | He watched the vicar 's face waiting for the thunderous ‘ thou shalt be cast into the eternal fires ’ glare but he only smiled and shook her hand . |
| 30 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |