Example sentences of "[pron] eyes [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the rainwater of mine eyes runs out . |
| 2 | Not knowing then what a polyp was , I still found my eyes welling up with tears of relief . |
| 3 | My eyes filled up with water , I did n't want to stay there I wanted to be with my mum . |
| 4 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ When I first read a small paragraph about him being arrested I remember my eyes popping out on stalks like a cartoon character . ’ |
| 7 | We proceeded without lights and I did the whole thing by radar with my eyes standing out like organ stops . |
| 8 | My eyes glaze over , my muscles go limp . |
| 9 | My eyes blazed out of this thin , dirty face , so large and angry . |
| 10 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 11 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 12 | Erm yeah I 've had a bit of a look at it but my eyes glazed over at about one thirty . |
| 13 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 14 | In Rio de Janeiro , dead street children have been found trussed in barbed wire , with their eyes gouged out , and even decapitated with a chainsaw . |
| 15 | their eyes lit up . |
| 16 | Their eyes screw out and ooh ooh . |
| 17 | Their eyes snap round in horror . |
| 18 | A door opened and a light so bright and sudden it hurt their eyes spilled through from the back . |
| 19 | ( Notice how , in a publicity photograph issued by the Tallis Scholars , most of the singers have their eyes cast down to their copies — see illus.3 . ) |
| 20 | Instead of buying them aftershave at Christmas , their eyes lit up at enormous , giftwrapped , tubs of Swarfega . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of people have had their eyes opened up now . |
| 22 | Everyone felt it , and the air being still pregnant with prophecy and contention , everyone started and pricked attentive ears , and several opened their eyes to look round towards the source of this abrupt wind from the outer world . |
| 23 | The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber , their eyes cast down . |
| 24 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 25 | But I ca n't tell you what it felt like , first of all having cancer , secondly trying to talk about it , and being continually asked , ‘ Well , how are you Jo ? ’ and you 'd see their eyes glaze over and they 'd think , ‘ Christ , I hope she 's not going to tell me ! ’ |
| 26 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 27 | Their eyes flickered back and forth , as though they were searching for something . |
| 28 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 29 | But the fire from its eyes darted out and burned the stepmother and step sisters to cinders . |
| 30 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |