Example sentences of "her eyes [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes widened at the sight of him . |
| 2 | He kept thinking of her pirouetting , her small face impish , then her eyes filling at the memory of her lost doll . |
| 3 | Her eyes rounded at the sight of so much flesh , although she stepped quite boldly into the room . |
| 4 | Her eyes deepen at the memory . |
| 5 | For a moment her eyes blurred at the memories of happy days , days of innocence . |
| 6 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 7 | Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained . |
| 8 | She turned her head slightly , opening her eyes to gaze at the firm , tanned hands clasping the wheel of the super-charged sports car that Ross had hired earlier that afternoon . |