Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 2 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 3 | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set , widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows , a well-shaped , rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon . |
| 4 | She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’ |
| 5 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 6 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 7 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 8 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
| 10 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 11 | Now I comes to think on it , I 've not set eyes on Black Will since afore we went to the Garden Tower last evening . ’ |
| 12 | I 've not set eyes on her since I got back . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 15 | Neither , it seems , has the population ever set eyes on an American . |
| 16 | According to them , not a quarter of the people in that house have ever set eyes on Mr. Keller . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think I 've ever set eyes on her , ’ said Jack . |
| 18 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 19 | Few here had ever set eyes on the man they were mourning , but they saw in his act the ultimate sacrifice for their dream of independence . |
| 20 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 21 | ‘ Down here we have n't set eyes on a banana for years ! |
| 22 | She had n't set eyes on him for years , but there was no mistake . |
| 23 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 24 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 25 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 26 | I have n't laid eyes on you in an age . |
| 27 | Both she and Katherine gazed at the girl 's openly sensuous movements , the clinging magenta frock , the dramatically outlined eyes against the pale skin , the fall of blonde hair . |
| 28 | Ronni had barely set eyes on Guido for days . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |