Example sentences of "watched him [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched him come to the door . |
| 2 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 3 | She watched him kneel on the floor and , taking a deep breath , she switched off all sensitivity to close her lips over his wrinkled anus . |
| 4 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
| 5 | He watched him go to the bar and get a glass of wine , looked away , aware that he was approaching . |
| 6 | She watched him go down the steps . |
| 7 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 8 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 9 | She watched him climb from the bed and put on his dressing gown . |
| 10 | Wakelate came into the kitchen and Cleo , still standing stiffly by the sink , watched him turn on the gas of one of the wall lamps . |
| 11 | There were tears in Johnny 's eyes as he watched him turn into the laneway and out of sight ; he had a feeling he would never see him again . |
| 12 | Simon was good-looking , Marie thought , as she watched him cut across the beach on a long diagonal towards the kiosk . |
| 13 | She watched him slide behind the wheel of the Jag and start up the powerful engine . |
| 14 | Willie watched him walk down the path and towards the church . |
| 15 | She watched him walk down the path and get into his Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | ‘ A bit , ’ she said , and she watched him walk to the end of the bed . |
| 17 | She watched him walk to the door and open it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
| 20 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
| 21 | I untied the painter from its iron ring in the concrete , then squatted on the jetty and watched him fiddle inside the hatch . |
| 22 | She watched him undress in the easy manner of a long-standing husband before his wife . |
| 23 | Winston watched him hurry down the drive to his car . |
| 24 | Isabel watched him vanish beneath the barbican and felt as though she had been abandoned to face the enemy without weapons or protection . |
| 25 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 26 | A delighted , if somewhat bewildered smile tugging at her own mouth , her eyes alight with laughter , she watched him melt into the crowds . |
| 27 | Her voice was cracked , coming like a broken note from a rusty instrument ; and again she appealed to him as she watched him move towards the bedroom door . |
| 28 | She watched him cross to the pile and rummage around . |