Example sentences of "and watched it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then broke away as Lambert was also firing at this aircraft , and watched it crash into the sea . |
| 2 | He drew his sword and watched it come closer . |
| 3 | Tom stopped and put his finger to his lips and they stood and watched it hopping in and out among the changing leaves . |
| 4 | She moved to the window and watched it pull up . |
| 5 | Yanto attached the crane hook to his latest sling of timber , steadied it as Tiny Bennion took the strain , and watched it disappear through the hatch . |
| 6 | I threw the bag into deep water , and watched it disappear . |
| 7 | I threw the bag into deep water , and watched it disappear . |
| 8 | When he refused , Mr Reynolds climbed off the engine and watched it fall through the bridge on to the car , steam and smoke erupting from the cab as it did so . |
| 9 | He sat and watched it fall into folds across his knee and the dense depth of its scarlet pile was more delightful than wine or the blood from roasting beef . |
| 10 | Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed . |
| 11 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 12 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 13 | Before the letter could contaminate him with reason he pushed it into the fire and watched it burn . |
| 14 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 15 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 16 | He was half turned towards her , and Maria saw him lift a hand and watched it move towards her , coming to rest against her bare midriff , warm fingers shaping themselves lightly to its gentle curve . |
| 17 | He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts . |
| 18 | They took a muscle sample from my arm , stuck electrodes into me , injected some radio-opaque fluid into my spine , and watched it going up and down with X-rays as they tilted the bed . |
| 19 | One of the men at the roadblock , bored , dropped a stick into the water and watched it float under the span . |
| 20 | He braced himself to clout the ball , and watched it race away , like a round of tracer … |
| 21 | Barney nodded resignedly as he gave the canoe a push with his foot , and watched it drift out into midstream . |