Example sentences of "her eye [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte had been the first to make the connection ; her eyes lit with a spark of alert intelligence which was meant as a communication , and as briefly acknowledged by a warning flicker of George 's glance in her direction . |
| 2 | She floated above and ahead of them , and her eyes narrowed onto a shimmer of water at a hairpin bend . |
| 3 | Alice had the impression , as she rose from her chair , that again Felicity was dark and hag-like , her eyes glittering from a wigwam of jet-black hair . |
| 4 | Isabel squeezed her eyes shut for a second . |
| 5 | A bead of moisture clung , and she squeezed her eyes shut for a second lest she reach out and lick it away . |
| 6 | Reluctantly she turned her eyes away , then gasped as her eyes fell on a painting in pride of place on the only wall at which she had not as yet glanced . |
| 7 | Irritated , she looked away and was about to tackle him about the apartment when her eyes fell on a party of very young children in fairy-tale costumes being shepherded past Quadri 's caffè by doting parents and grandparents . |
| 8 | Flipping lazily on to her back , she floated with her eyes closed for a moment , frowning as the sound of a door closing echoed around the pool . |
| 9 | Limping , sniffing , aware that the rain could have ruined her best velvet skirt , she stumbled along , her eyes peeled for a phone box . |
| 10 | She looked hastily away — and found her eyes glued to a body that had no business being so magnetically attractive . |
| 11 | She let her eyes close for a moment . |
| 12 | She let her eyes stray for a moment to the door of the bedroom where her little daughter now lay fast asleep . |
| 13 | He sat down and watched her , fascinated , as she put the bread to her mouth , her eyes closing in a kind of ecstasy when she bit into it . |
| 14 | Her eye fell on a group of poinsettias . |
| 15 | But then her eye lit on a tank of juvenile Uaru … |