Example sentences of "watching [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there — how clearly he remembered it suddenly — there , watching them climb into the dark , was the boy , smiling beatifically , his big , dark eyes filled with wonder . |
| 2 | When she cooked them , Endill sat in the kitchen on a tall stool , watching them disappear into the big soup pan full of steaming , bubbling water . |
| 3 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 4 | Sometimes , with Prince , it 's like watching someone else watching himself masturbate in a mirror . |
| 5 | He had risen and now stood watching her go towards the side door . |
| 6 | Rachel crimsoned , watching him disappear up the stairs as she and Damian walked in tense silence to the living-room . |
| 7 | Watching him disappear into the inner sanctum , Lucy sighed . |
| 8 | ‘ What on earth are you doing ? ’ she felt compelled to ask while watching him stride across the room . |
| 9 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 10 | Leonora sipped her tea in silence , watching him dispose of a large slice of cheese and several wholewheat biscuits . |
| 11 | It was Barney who returned to it first , dribbling cream into his coffee and watching it swirl into a spiral on the surface . |
| 12 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 13 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 14 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |