Example sentences of "i watch the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As February turns to March , I watch the evening weather forecists with increasing interest . |
| 2 | four or five times as I watch the skua tries and each time it fails . |
| 3 | As we head back towards Heimæy I watch the last of the light tinkering with the wave-tops . |
| 4 | I watch the man till he 's finished and he drives off . |
| 5 | I watch the two blokes through the window then I carry on walking . |
| 6 | I watch the foil carefully . |
| 7 | No , I watch the way Mr Hogan has faced the world , and I try to learn from that . ’ |
| 8 | As I watch the programme being filmed , I imagine that the cameras are rifles , lining up telescopic sights at his head . |
| 9 | On machines without automatic end needle selection , I watch the end needles . |
| 10 | And yesterday he said : ‘ I think I 'll cry every time I watch the race . ’ |
| 11 | It also occurs to me , as I watch the laibon direct a stream of sugar into his second cup of tea , that there may have been something degrading about being delivered this cultural snub . |
| 12 | But , I do n't go to football now , I watch the television cos I 'm seventy three now , but it never any harm ! |
| 13 | I watch the real life go by outside like it 's something from an SF movie ; I ca n't believe how alien it all looks , how strange and foreign . |
| 14 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 15 | I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business . |
| 16 | I watch the television , I read the papers . |
| 17 | I watch the shadow of the blade |
| 18 | Peeping again , I watch the monster gorging itself while the family prays . |
| 19 | Pa and Ms are both snoring as I watch the yellow dustcart reverse up our track . |
| 20 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 21 | I watch the passers-by in the streets outside , living their lives . |
| 22 | Each night I watch the television news . |
| 23 | In the afternoon I watch the English football . |
| 24 | I watch the women arrive with their carrier bags , their boyfriends , husbands , mothers . |
| 25 | Turning , with my back to the hillside for a minute , I watch the red dragon of tail-lights slithering tightly down the valley . |
| 26 | I watch the erection sentimentally , lest it fade , as he blatantly tempts fate . |
| 27 | I watch the horrible dream drive away and disappear in a dribble of tail-lights . |
| 28 | But I will not let the difference in setting impair my judgment when I watch the plays in the church hall . ’ |
| 29 | and I watch the pain |
| 30 | Now as I watch the progress of the plague , The friends surrounding me fall sick , grow thin , And drop away . |