I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird watching (= the activity of watching wild birds )
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One of his hobbies is bird watching.
digital watch
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a digital watch
fob watch
gold watch/chain/ring etc
keep a close eye/watch on sb/sth (= watch someone or something carefully )
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They have to keep a close eye on their finances.
keep a watching brief on
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One of his responsibilities is to keep a watching brief on foreign broadcasts.
neighbourhood watch
put our watches forward
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We put our watches forward by 2 hours.
see/watch a game
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Did you see the game last night?
see/watch sth on television
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She saw the race on television.
watch a channel
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The kids are always watching the cartoon channel.
watch a film
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He stayed in and watched a film on TV.
watch a match
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I watched the match on TV.
watch a play
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Some of the audience were talking instead of watching the play.
watch a programme
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She was watching a wildlife programme.
watch a show
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People of all ages watch the show.
watch cricket
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He likes to spend summer weekends watching cricket.
watch football
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He likes to spend Saturday afternoon watching football.
watch list
watch sb’s expression
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‘Does it really matter?’ Elizabeth asked, watching his expression closely.
watch television
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Mum was in the lounge watching television.
watch your weight (= try not to get fatter, by eating the correct foods )
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He has to watch his weight because he has a heart condition.
watched...closely
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The detective watched him closely , waiting for a reply.
watch/follow sb’s every move
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His eyes followed Cissy’s every move.
watching brief
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One of his responsibilities is to keep a watching brief on foreign broadcasts.
watch/see a movie
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We watched the movie and ate popcorn.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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As this is the stage at which material is actively removed, the sections should be watched carefully during this process.
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His or her behavior is carefully watched and not infrequently copied.
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She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.
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We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.
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They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
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The companies are watching carefully lest other lobbyists try to slip the tougher provisions back in.
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Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward.
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Two things must be carefully watched .
closely
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Countries in the Middle East will be watching closely .
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The Food Lion suit has been closely watched because hidden-camera reports have become a popular staple of network newsmagazine shows.
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He knew I was clean, because he'd run over me himself, but just the same, he watched closely .
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I watch closely to see who lives inside the tubes, but my patience is unrewarded.
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The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first.
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During that day on Lulu, I watched closely the men who tended Alvin and envied them the challenge of their job.
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Isabel, watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages.
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I watched closely the Britts and other successful men and women in this business.
■ NOUN
face
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Gabriel was watching her face and saw her blush.
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One at a time as they turned the bend, Ezra watched their faces stretch.
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Edouard stood back by the doors, watching her, his face oddly closed.
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They were watching with faces of serious alarm.
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Leave her wanting just to watch the way his face lightened, losing years?
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Or send a photo of your younger siblings and watch their faces light up when they see themselves in this animated adventure.
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She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel.
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She took her place at his side again, and watched the exquisitely etched face in the soft light.
film
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I have been watching a film .
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Numerous households will want to watch the film either simultaneously or at overlapping times.
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As already observed that is a much better vote-winning method than staying in watching films .
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We sat there, we two, watching the film .
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I remember having an extraordinary experience watching the film of Apocalypse Now.
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Gray said he asked four of the men who live in Tuskegee to watch the film with him.
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We settle down to watch the next film .
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Jody has spent the day indoors watching game film .
game
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He's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place.
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They may stay on the periphery watching the recess-time basketball games and jump-rope competitions from the sidelines of the playground.
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Just confine yourself to watching the game , that's all.
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A couple in their mid 20s is occupying a booth, but are more preoccupied with making out than watching the game .
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But if you watched Swindon's game on Sunday ... you were in for a treat.
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We were sitting around, watching games , imagining every scenario.
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I got home at about 2.30am and watched the game again on telly.
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It takes an hour and a half to watch the game .
move
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As he examined the yoyo, he could hear the child breathing beside him, watching his every move .
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We don't realise that when we connect to the internet from home, some one may be watching our every move .
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With his huge head, huge eyebrows, he watched our every move in the building.
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Jane watched her move around the room.
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I tossed the zinoviev wrapper and watched Raffles make his move .
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Her cub followed, watching her every move .
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At night they would spread their blankets on the porch and lie watching the fog move toward them from across the lake.
movie
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I bath and then I pay to watch a movie called Hollywood Casting Couch.
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When you watch certain rare movies , you can see the labor of love that made them possible.
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She started to watch the movie .
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A customer wishes to watch a movie .
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Once in a while she stayed up to help him watch a movie .
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We are very excited, but not at the prospect of watching the movie .
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Wacky comedy about a scientist trying to drive a guy crazy by forcing him to watch the worst movies ever made.
news
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Instead it became more dependent upon how frequently they watched television news .
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On any given weekday night, around thirty-eight million people are watching the network news , with millions more watching local news.
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He was back at the flat in time to watch the five forty-five news .
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About twelve million people watch morning news programs.
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Victoria lives just outside Cheltenham and she often watches Central News .
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As he unpacked, he watched the news , Tranformer cartoons and a talk show.
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Each night I watch the television news .
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He laid a tray and took his supper into the study to watch the news .
programme
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In fact, they were the chief reasons for watching the programme .
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It's like watching a proper programme .
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You can do more than just watch a programme once, straight through.
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Senior officers are watching the pilot programme carefully with a view to including other areas.
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She sort of glances at me and then she goes back to watching her programme .
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I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff.
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Alternatively something of a ritual might be made of inviting friends round to watch a particular programme .
television
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One important source of pleasure will be investigated in some detail - television watching .
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It is dangerous if you try to separate them ... On television I watched a nature short about two-headed snakes.
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He turned on the television and watched the first two innings of the Mets game.
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What television programmes do I watch ?
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After all, most television programs are watched in the privacy of our own homes.
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His family have never owned a television and he usually watches it at his gran's house.
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On television , you watch the political leader announce that inflation is down 5 percent.
video
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Store detectives undergo extensive training routines which include role playing and watching videos of mock incidents.
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In one, the children watch cartoon videos .
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He watched the videos alone and extracted the issues he wanted to consider.
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I left, defeated, and through the window watched him replace the videos on the shelf ready for the next customer.
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The director sits watching a video of a film made, usually, several years previously.
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Watching Dash was as disconcerting as watching a music video .
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But I never have been able to bring myself to watch the video .
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He had to be wishing he were home watching a video .
■ VERB
sit
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To sit by fires and watch the moon rise.
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She sits motionless, watching the darkening distant trees.
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As a kid I'd just sit and watch my parents work and you'd learn so much.
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The Baggies people could not just sit back and watch all this happen.
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He parked his tractor facing me about six feet from the far bank and sat watching me while eating his sandwiches.
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How am I going to sit around and watch him shoot?
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Will they sit back and watch their dream be diluted?
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We sat and watched them being made.
stand
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Jakey David stands watching the children play.
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For a second Robby just stood there watching , all color abruptly gone from his cheeks.
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At the end of training Moses Kiptanui showed me his hurdling technique and then stood back to watch me.
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For five minutes we all stood and watched each other.
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The crowd was about fifty in number and stood about chatting and watching the riders.
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Jody is standing on the sidelines watching the visitors go through their drills.
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They were both good dancers and gradually the other couples drifted off the floor and stood in a circle watching them.
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The inherent danger is that the other Sixers stand around and watch Iverson, leading to little or no balance.
stop
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Any closer, and they stop peeking altogether and watch the cat closely.
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She had mastered him: he had stopped running to watch her.
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I had to stop watching because there was too much emotion.
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On one of his trips down to the van he stopped to watch the mailman fill the boxes.
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Sent you out for some fresh air, did they - stop you watching endless videos?
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The morning landing halted traffic on nearby Interstate 5 as many motorists stopped to watch the action.
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Even the parents had stopped chattering, watching with communal pride the appreciation of their efforts by the reprieved animals.
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She stopped watching maudlin movies and eating greasy ribs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(you) watch your mouth
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I remember watching her mouth while she talked.
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It went up 32 points Thursday, a day Newt watched his mouth .
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She knew he had spoken, she had watched his mouth move.
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We have to watch our mouths and let our kids know that bad words are unacceptable.
all eyes are on/watching/fixed on etc
analogue clock/watch
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An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
watch sb like a hawk
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Parents should watch their kids like a hawk for sunburns.
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And it's putting me off, having you watching me like a hawk all the time.
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He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction.
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Kruger is watching them like a hawk !
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They're watching me like hawks here.
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Today, more than usual, he had been watching them like a hawk .
watch your step
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You'd better watch your step if you want to keep your job.
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He would have to watch his step on his return.
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I had to watch my step .
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I would watch my step if I were you.
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Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully.
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Opposing players really had to watch their step ....
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Plus, Best foot forward, but watch your step ... aerobics can be a pain.
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Some one bumped into him and sharply told him to watch his step .
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The sign outside may say Céad Míle Faíte, but inside you watch your step .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you want to play too?" "No, thanks. I'll just watch ."
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Watch your fingers - I'm closing the door.
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Both candidates are watching the opinion polls carefully.
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Detectives have been watching Mr Heskey's movements for some time.
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Did you watch that programme about real life murders last night?
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Do you want to join in or just sit and watch ?
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Don't let children play near water without an adult to watch them.
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Ed likes to go to the park and watch the pigeons.
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He had the feeling that he was being watched.
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I watched as the small boat disappeared over the horizon.
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Many swimmers are videoed during training so they can watch how their performance improves.
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She watched the man with interest as he made his way through the crowd.
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Stay here and watch our bags while I go and buy some food.
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The Presidential debate was watched by over 10 million people.
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The thieves had obviously been watching his house and knew when he was likely to be out.
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They watched the runners go past.
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We watched the children playing on the beach.
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We have watched hundreds of small firms collapse over the last few years.
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Who can I get to watch the kids tonight?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He watched Lux pour himself a half cup of coffee and sit down in front of the radios.
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He watches Julio listen for the sound and not hear it.
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I shop there regularly and I've watched her gathering nuggets of people's lives.
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It was mesmerizing to watch her, to see if she could make it.
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My head twisted around to watch her as I walked.
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She watched it slip and slide this way and that to fall at her feet.
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Slowly, so that we can watch her face.
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They watched how he was forced to let Paul manage the navigation as he stood close by.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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I've had a fairly close watch kept on me.
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If not, why should Lalla Faqiha have kept such close watch on me and beaten me with such vindictiveness?
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Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
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The inspector kept close watch of their arms and equipments and clothing.
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They tend, however, to keep a closer watch on discharges which are potentially highly polluting or large in volume.
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As mentioned earlier, there are alternatives for those keeping a close watch on their cholesterol.
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Fortunately Scott was reasonably obedient as long as some one kept a close watch over him.
digital
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Sir Clive, 51, also invented the pocket calculator, home computer and the digital watch .
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He must have watched his digital watch flick away each precious minute and second.
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You can synchronise your digital watch with the countdown to ensure you start exactly as the gun goes.
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Then I noticed my digital altimeter watch had gone blank, a casualty.
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He'd seen something rather more promising than digital watches under Mr Schofield's work bench, something in a small bag.
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Zoltan's company, Cyanamid, plans to license its pending patents to makers of digital watches .
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You can always tell some one who is using a digital watch .
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However, there is an instant when a digital watch is speechless.
gold
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The obvious thing was the gold watch , wrapped up at the bottom in a bit of cloth.
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But Jim was stunned, because he had sold his gold watch to buy Della the combs.
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Her gold watch and her digital clock agree that it is nineteen minutes past eight.
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The sleeves and pockets of the filthy jacket were lined with hundreds and hundreds of gold watches .
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Martin was presented with a gold watch from the Company and six crystal glasses from his branch colleagues.
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In lieu of luggage he left a gold watch .
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He sipped his gin and tonic, and my eyes flitted to his gold watch and his gold bracelet.
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Della wanted to get Jim a chain for his special gold watch .
■ NOUN
neighbourhood
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There are neighbourhood watch schemes and informal baby-minding groups.
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In the Croydon area, where neighbourhood watch schemes are strong, burglaries are down.
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Where there is sustained development of neighbourhood watch schemes, there is a sustained decrease in the number of burglaries.
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Does he agree that neighbourhood watches can be deemed only an aid to proper policing, in terms of numbers and police efficiency?
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A neighbourhood watch scheme has been established linking each home, where every door and gate is permanently locked against intruders.
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The exhibition included various crime prevention systems both for the home and the car and details of neighbourhood watch .
night
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Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week, Nicholas undertook it three times.
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Also we stopped using our little paraffin lamp during the night watch , and used torches instead.
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It was the third hour of the night watch .
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Our hand torches for the night watch began to break down.
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We were all damp, tired, and did not look forward to managing Hsu Fu through the long night watches .
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But lack of sleep due to the four-hour night watches was a perfectly reasonable, if not wholly true, explanation for both.
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For the rest of the time it was a question of patience under uncomfortable conditions, particularly on the night watch .
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For the average distance runner fat is about as much use as a pocket watch .
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His right forearm rests on a table, and in his fingers is the Jefferys pocket watch !.
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The jewellery pictured includes a silver pocket watch , a pearl brooch, a silver pendant and several tie or stick pins.
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In 1753, Jefferys made Harrison a pocket watch for his personal use.
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Sandra was presented with a gold wrist watch and Malcolm with a pocket watch by general manager Ken Burkinshaw.
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He may have lent a hand in the construction of the Jefferys pocket watch and even of H-4.
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My pocket watch showed that it was only six-twenty.
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His father had taken out his pocket watch .
■ VERB
check
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I checked my watch: 10.40.
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In the partly cloudy moonlight, I checked my watch: 0200.
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Ever since Jack could remember, women had been offended with his checking his watch .
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I grin at him with my eyes and check my watch .
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He pulled on a beret and stared down the empty road, then he checked his watch , frowning.
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The men met each day at noon in the observatory to check the watch against the regulator clock and then rewind it.
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I checked my watch and saw that it was Thursday.
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I walked to the front door, checked my watch , and flicked the porch light on and off three times.
consult
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Several times during the morning he found himself consulting his watch , wondering how his daughter-in-law was progressing.
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It did not occur to him, however, to consult his watch .
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They consulted their watches and moved north through the trees, looking back and painting as they went.
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The next time she consulted her watch she saw with surprise that it was nearly six o'clock.
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He regularly consults his watch which also provides the only illumination.
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Already they would be consulting their watches , calculating how long it would be before he could make it.
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One of us automatically consults his watch: 4.40 to the second.
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By the last vestiges of twilight he consulted his waterlogged watch .
glance
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He glanced at his watch and looked around.
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The priest glanced at his watch .
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She kept glancing at her watch .
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Sloan had been glancing at his watch and reminding them that he had to clean up the house.
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She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost midnight.
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That done, I glanced at my watch .
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She glanced down at her watch .
keep
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I told my friend Bridget it was up to us to keep watch .
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Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
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The inspector kept close watch of their arms and equipments and clothing.
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It is important, none the less, to keep a careful watch on progress.
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As mentioned earlier, there are alternatives for those keeping a close watch on their cholesterol.
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It was his job to keep watch through the night, but boredom and tiredness had taken over.
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They would have to keep a strict watch over the gauges of all the devices.
set
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During the flight Set your watch immediately to agree with local time at your destination.
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He set his watch to the clock on the mantel.
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Men would set their watches by other suns than this.
stand
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Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die.
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Noon meal formations will still be precisely at 12: 10, with tourists still standing watch .
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He was prepared to stand watch and steer the ship for forty or fifty days or however long was necessary.
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The wall is rimmed with razor wire; guards, dressed in camouflage, stand watch .
wear
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He floated up the East River wearing a stolen watch .
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There is no reason to wear your watch this way, except that your father told you to do so.
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Could the workers afford to buy and wear these watches ?
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I only wear my watch this way because my father did.
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He had played a wizard, but Anton now wore his watch .
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Something about not wearing a watch , he ventured.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(you) watch your mouth
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I remember watching her mouth while she talked.
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It went up 32 points Thursday, a day Newt watched his mouth .
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She knew he had spoken, she had watched his mouth move.
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We have to watch our mouths and let our kids know that bad words are unacceptable.
analogue clock/watch
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An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
keep guard/watch
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Capshaw sent him out the back door to avoid whoever it was keeping guard in the front.
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He kept watching out the window of the rear door.
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He climbed to the top of the fence and looked around to see if there was some one keeping watch there as well.
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I told my friend Bridget it was up to us to keep watch.
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Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey.
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Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch.
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Now do stuff that will make us want to keep watching.
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The trick was to keep watching.
put a clock/watch back
put a clock/watch forward
synchronize your watches
watch your step
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You'd better watch your step if you want to keep your job.
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He would have to watch his step on his return.
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I had to watch my step .
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I would watch my step if I were you.
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Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully.
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Opposing players really had to watch their step ....
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Plus, Best foot forward, but watch your step ... aerobics can be a pain.
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Some one bumped into him and sharply told him to watch his step .
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The sign outside may say Céad Míle Faíte, but inside you watch your step .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He held the watch to his ear to see if it was working.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After crossing the bridge Moran checked his watch and to their infinite relief started to walk quickly.
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As a result, he was forced to lubricate the watch .
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He got three watches, some money, knives, and other things.
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His watch said that it was nine-thirty, and he cringed to think of the time he had lost.
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I felt oddly naked without my watch , I always do.
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Noon meal formations will still be precisely at 12: 10, with tourists still standing watch .
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The captains knew all the tricks though, and were constantly on the watch .