Example sentences of "watched him [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig moved about the room lightly , he was surprisingly deft for a big man and as Hari watched him cut the bread into silly thin slices , she smiled . |
| 2 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 3 | She watched him sifting the batch of cards , momentarily intrigued . |
| 4 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 5 | Helplessly she watched him remove the key from her nerveless fingers and insert it into the lock where it turned easily , clicking the door open . |
| 6 | She watched him leave the kitchen , sighed furiously and then stared blankly into space . |
| 7 | I nodded , and nervously watched him leave the room . |
| 8 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 9 | Disconcerted , she said goodbye , and watched him leave the room . |
| 10 | Christina watched him leave the house and walk towards the beach before she went inside and dressed slowly , thinking about his reaction to her refusal to make love . |
| 11 | Unbuttoning her raincoat , she followed him , watched him light the gas . |
| 12 | When they were both soaked in the greasy oil , she watched him pour the remainder of the bottle over the rubber sheet . |
| 13 | Mariana watched him slip the picture inside the folded map for protection . |
| 14 | Once the students , not without glee , watched him celebrating the sacrament with the ends of his back braces protruding out of the top of his vestment . |
| 15 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 16 | We watched him consult the programme , turning each page and examining our faces and the oblong patch of biography beneath the photographs . |
| 17 | The others watched him cross the road and make his unsteady way down York Street . |
| 18 | Philip watched him cross the road . |
| 19 | He did n't look back and I watched him cross the road , climb a wall and trail away across the fields towards the river . |
| 20 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |