Example sentences of "eyes 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 . |