Example sentences of "[noun] to watch a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a crime to watch a rival soap . |
| 2 | The couple , on the last night of their four-day official tour of the country , were driven to Sejong Cultural Centre in an armoured stretched Cadillac to watch a performance of Delibe 's Coppelia by the Scottish Ballet , which is on a Far East tour . |
| 3 | Sweet-voiced children from the royal choir sang madrigals and , halfway through the meal , we were escorted by torchlight to watch a Latin comedy by Platus . |
| 4 | He looked out of the window to watch a rowing boat floundering by with novice crew . |
| 5 | It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences . |
| 6 | In the Nineties , it goes without saying , it was another England — de-industrialized , post-industrial , an England whose representatives were , by and large , strangers to the dingy side-streets and the scurrying wind — who had gathered under a rotunda at the National Portrait Gallery to watch a portrait of one of the heroes of ‘ 66 and many people 's idea of the Greatest Living Englishman , Bobby Charlton , being unveiled . |
| 7 | Christian accompanied him once to Ireland to watch a new filly run , took one look through the field-glasses , announced he was already dying of boredom , and departed to look at paintings . |
| 8 | Attendance at a day centre where the parents and child attend together can be very valuable or the professional 's going to the parents ' home to watch a play session will enable sharing of the observations . |
| 9 | But that evening I settled down at home to watch a superb and delightful documentary on the giant otters of South America . |
| 10 | Places to eat , places to drink , places to watch a show , places to put on a show , place to smoke or sniff or inject or otherwise absorb any of the various ecstatic drugs , places to find a partner or several , places to lose a partner , places to gamble , places to indulge you smallest whim no matter how illegal or depraved , places where if you wished you could simply stand and scream . |
| 11 | In the dark days of the Southern Capital under Akhenaten , Nubenehem had told him once , a father who had sold his daughter into prostitution sometime later visited the City of Dreams to watch a session : his daughter , whom he had never touched himself , was one of the participants . |
| 12 | When my right hon. Friend next has a free Saturday , will he fly up to Manchester , look at what has been achieved by the airport , and then pop over to Old Trafford to watch a first-class football side in action ? |
| 13 | At some stages in their lives children are quite convinced that they have magical powers and often after a tussle about bedtime or a rejected request to watch a TV programme will ‘ wish ’ that the irritating adult would vanish . |
| 14 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 15 | It would even be possible for people to watch a political or parliamentary debate at home on television , and then register their vote or opinion at the end of it by pressing a button or making a free phone-call . |
| 16 | In line with this principle , she ignored the Gorbachev visit and went to the cinema to watch a film that had been banned for 20 years , since it deals with the Russian invasion of 1945 . |
| 17 | We arrived back at my cabin to watch a private video called Sierra Nevada starring a vixen called Kym . |
| 18 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 19 | Elena will be at the centre to watch a football tournament , hear music from Stokesley School Band , see displays by the local police and fire services and enjoy various stalls and sideshows . |
| 20 | Murray also arranged for the players to watch a video of the game on the coach on the way to Stockport . |
| 21 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 22 | My route drew no special attention , since many others were moving over that way to watch a magnificent Tau-cluster Megaliner thunder in , no doubt carrying another load of rich hot burners . |
| 23 | I 've never really had the good fortune to watch a fly 's last moments on Earth before , and my eyes are just glued to this small splodge of legs and wings which are interrupting the clean , shiny surface of the screen . |
| 24 | Sweet , cool morning air swept in as he settled in a chair by the balcony to watch a new day begin on the Paris street below . |
| 25 | When it ended we moved out on to the palace balcony to watch a display of fireworks , the first to be given in the country ; but after two rockets had been fired something went wrong and the rest blew up . |
| 26 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 27 | Switching on the television set to watch a modern Boat Race , I recall the heated passions aroused among small boys in the early 1930s as we waited to learn whether we had picked the right shade of blue . |
| 28 | Balanchine , Kirstein and Tanning went down to Bournemouth at the end of June to watch a run-through by the company , which was on tour . |