Example sentences of "eye and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 2 | He screwed up his eyes and stared into the middle distance . |
| 3 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 4 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 5 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 6 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 7 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 8 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 9 | With a brief smile in the other woman 's direction , she fled , taking refuge in the consulting-room , where she closed her eyes and leaned against the closed door , breathing hard . |
| 10 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 11 | Cranston glanced at Athelstan out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the barbed reminder what was true of Fulke and others in the Tower was also true of his relationship with the Lady Maude . |