West Germans could but watch helplessly as his body was pulled from the water.
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For nearly three days Oberoi stayed put there, communicating by cell phone, watching helplessly from afar.
She watched helplessly as her husband drifted off clasping the plastic cover of their Jacuzzi.
She watched helplessly as the gunman shot her son in the face, she said.
"Don't expect people's ears to listen when they're hungry, " the other priest says helplessly.
His numerous legs, pitifully thin compared with the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
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Second, they can helplessly watch polarisation within Pakistan get worse, possibly leading to a coup or regime change.
Intensive-care nurses at Cincinnati Children's used to watch helplessly as 60 kids a year developed this deadly infection.
Mr Khatami, who seems helplessly aware that Iran's chances of peaceful reform are slipping away, has remained silent.
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The truck driver watched helplessly as the structure collapsed in his rearview mirror.
Doctors watch helplessly as 15% of the afflicted children suffer relapses and die.
As his wife Susannah looked on helplessly, the men began to hack at Nyerere's arms and legs with machetes.
Others have jammed as I helplessly watched the fish break the locked line.
Richmond led 63-60 with 4.7 seconds to go, then watched helplessly as Henry drained shot after shot from the line.
By the time the postwar trials were finished, the Emperor seemed more like a fly trapped helplessly in a web.
He is the man who is laughed with and not at when he dangles helplessly from a zip wire.
Youvraj and Dhoni could only sit helplessly on the boundary edge as Jadeja struggled to keep up with the scoring rate.
The Clinton administration helplessly acquiesced, finally approving a new Security Council resolution in 1999 that gave us the current toothless inspections regime.
Guess wrong and players can only watch helplessly as their soldiers get outflanked and end up on the board in the bar.
The fire damaged two other buildings as firefighters, unable to get heavy equipment to the site because of the flooding, watched helplessly.
They rode out the hurricane and watched helplessly as the water in the house where they sought refuge rose higher and higher.
Some dashed to the headland, only to watch helplessly as a wooden boat carrying as many as 100 asylum-seekers smashed against rocks.
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They ponder the world around them and grapple helplessly with the past.
Russian liberals are helplessly depressed about their chances of disrupting the coronation.
Did the Federal Reserve watch helplessly as Lehman failed because, as its officials have repeatedly asserted, they had no legal authority to stop it?
Carter, looking slightly shell-shocked by now, repeated the error minutes later and watched helplessly from his chair as Ronnie made a clearance of 92.
As in the case of the growing tensions between Israel and Egypt, the rupture between Israel and Turkey leaves America helplessly in the middle.
From her first day in the neighborhood, she was helplessly conspicuous.
The last time he saw her was 18 years ago, when he watched helplessly as she was kidnapped at a bus stop near the family's home.
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He cannot see this, or not all of it, and so he is not the master of the contradictions he ingeniously treats in his book but is still helplessly enmeshed in them.
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