Example sentences of "[pron] eyes in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I lay my eyes in wonder |
| 2 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 3 | I closed my eyes in disgust . |
| 4 | They 're up to their eyes in work . |
| 5 | She grabbed Steve 's sleeve , their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net . |
| 6 | Rabbits ( and humans for that matter ) blink their eyes in response to an air puff directed towards the cornea . |
| 7 | because they must be up to their eyes in debt |
| 8 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |
| 9 | She opened her eyes in surprise . |
| 10 | She had been irritated by the cook 's refusal of her offer to make a simple white sauce , though Mrs Cranbrook was up to her eyes in work . |
| 11 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 12 | Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again , Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite . |
| 13 | She closed her eyes in dread . |
| 14 | Her hair was plastered to her scalp , and she had to keep blinking and wiping her eyes in order to see at all . |
| 15 | Lesley 's niece , Beverley Spencer , 18 , said : ‘ She is on a life support unit but you can talk to her and she can flicker her eyes in response but that is about it . |
| 16 | Feeling cut off , isolated , beyond help , she closed her eyes in despair . |
| 17 | He returned the wink , and Kathleen closed her eyes in despair . |
| 18 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 19 | And on them , talking and laughing , sat so many women that Folly closed her eyes in shock . |
| 20 | The thin little cat , her repast spread on a newspaper in the corner , dug her sharp white teeth into the cod 's head , closing her eyes in bliss the while . |
| 21 | It stirred something deep and primitive in her and she closed her eyes in bliss as the last garment dropped to the floor . |
| 22 | She closed her eyes in ecstasy as Jamie flung himself on her , accusing her of being a flirt . |
| 23 | Flora closed her eyes in ecstasy . |
| 24 | Becoming embarrassingly aware of the awful smell emanating from her sodden clothing , she closed her eyes in defeat . |
| 25 | Closing her eyes in defeat , she slumped back against the door-frame . |
| 26 | She rolled her eyes in sufferance . |
| 27 | She shut her eyes in shame . |
| 28 | She saw Mrs Richards close her eyes in pain , and clutch at the sheet of the stretcher . |
| 29 | Louise rolled her eyes in exasperation . |
| 30 | She shut her eyes in anguish . |